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People wrote down Trump abusing tariffs in 2016 and there are analyses about how they damaged the economy. But nobody on lemmy knows about it. People will point out economic theory for why tariffs are bad because they seemingly don't remember the tariffs failing in the real world. Memes forgot 2016. There's even articles about politicians/billionaires selling stock using insider knowledge because "how else would they know about the tariffs?"
It's not like I read the entire fediverse but whenever tariffs are brought up I'm confused why people ignore 2016. It's not trivia, it's extremely relevant to what people are discussing.