Democratic challenger slams Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s support of Trump’s tariffs

Democratic challenger slams Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s support of Trump’s tariffs

The Democrat candidate running for Nassau County executive slammed Republican incumbent Bruce Blakeman for backing President Trump's global tariffs that have triggered a massive drop in the stock market.

Trump’s Tariffs, McKinley, and the Bonapartist Executive — Crooked Timber

With collapsing stock markets, retirement portfolios, and consumer confidence, there is an all-too-human tendency to focus on the economic effects of tariffs by their critics: they are a tax on consumption, they will raise inflation, reduce efficiency, and reduce take-home income, etc. This is familiar. But this mistakes the full significance of a tariff-centric public policy. First and foremost, tariffs are an exercise in political agency. In T…