Selling Out the Nation
The Enablers Who Are Letting Trump Torch the Economy
It’s beyond comprehension that Trump’s more rational advisors—who should know better—are enabling his lunatic tariff rampage. Any economically literate person can see that the looming damage—crushed markets, stalled growth, and shattered global trust—far outweighs any modest benefit, which at best would be a finite amount reduction in foreign tariffs on us. A rational cost-benefit analysis would expose this as sheer lunacy. The scale of the fallout is huge and potentially devastating—not least because we have no way of knowing how deep or enduring the consequences will be.
Among these normally clear-thinking economic minds —Scott Bessent, Kevin Hassett and Stephen Miran—are justifying the egregious damage of the tariff plan by dangling a promise of modest economic benefits when they know the costs are potentially catastrophic. The only benefit they can tout is narrowing the tariff gap—Trump’s complaint that other countries charge us more than we charge them. This potential upside, saving money on imports, is calculable and modest, and finite. Even in the rosiest scenario, it’s a drop in the bucket. But the damage? It’s not just huge; it’s potentially off the charts. Retaliatory tariffs from China? Predictable. Boeing losing contracts? Inevitable. Countries dumping our treasury securities or shunning U.S. investments? Obvious. These enablers aren’t clueless—they’re willfully ignoring the evidence, and that makes it even more of a disgrace. By cheering on Trump’s tariff tantrum instead of demanding a proper cost-benefit analysis, they’re betraying the country’s economic future.
An obvious and less destructive alternative exits that should have been tried before rushing into the fire: renegotiating tariffs country by country. The U.S., as the world’s economic powerhouse, may use its leverage strategically, preserving growth and alliances. But they haven’t indicated analysis of that evaluation either. Instead, the yes-men are allowing Trump’s wild tariff hikes to torch everything—our companies, our markets, our global standing. They know the costs are catastrophic, yet they keep enabling this economic suicide mission. Trump’s tariff catastrophe isn’t just his failure—it’s the unforgivable complicity of those around him who chose loyalty over logic, leaving the rest of us to pay the price.