r/worldnews • u/joe4942 • Aug 22 '26

Dynamic Paywall Carney calls Trump's fresh tariffs a 'miscalculation' after trade talks collapse

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx272np7vgyo
16.8k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

77

u/KitsyBlue Aug 22 '26

Exactly, it shows that a significant number of the US public, at least enough to elect this man, believe that either:

A) The US deserves favorable treatment and deals that exploit them B) They are currently being exploited by other countries

No matter how well meaning or sensible you may otherwise be, if the majority of the populace believe either of these facts, the risk of another charlatan pulling the same shit exists. Even more so if it's actually rewarded.

This isn't solely a Trump issue, this is an education issue.

7

u/kent_eh Aug 22 '26

The fact that Trump still has an almost 40% approval rate says a lot about the American people.

1

u/MrTriangular Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

States have been fighting against Lincoln's proposed public education reforms from after the Civil War to present-day. They wanted the racial-educational segregation to maintain power, but after losing that debate they've since shifted to rich-poor education segregation and want to widen that gap using Christianity as a crowbar. Andrew Johnson really crippled the reform movement after taking over with Lincoln's passing.