Posted on 10/21/2025 6:16:50 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
President Trump’s aggressive use of tariffs has secured overwhelming support among Republican voters, according to a new Economist/YouGov poll, cementing a dramatic transformation in conservative economic thinking that would have been unthinkable a generation ago.
The survey, conducted Oct. 17-20, found that roughly two-thirds of Trump voters and Republicans support maintaining or increasing current tariff levels — a striking endorsement of trade policies that the party’s establishment once uniformly opposed. Among conservatives, 62 percent support maintaining or increasing current tariff levels.
Even more remarkably, 59 percent of Trump voters back imposing a 100 percent tariff on all goods imported from China, effectively doubling the cost of Chinese products. Among Republicans overall, 58 percent support the measure. Among conservatives, 56 percent support the 100 percent tariff.
A New GOP Consensus
The findings reveal that Trump’s trade policies — once controversial even within his own party — have become orthodoxy on the right. Eighty percent of Republicans approve of Trump’s handling of foreign trade, with 49 percent expressing strong approval.
The poll’s timing is significant. By October 2025, Trump had already implemented sweeping tariff increases, including punitive measures on Chinese imports. When respondents said they wanted tariffs “kept the same,” they were endorsing these elevated levels, not calling for a return to pre-Trump trade policy.
Among Trump voters, 23 percent want tariffs increased further, while 43 percent want them maintained at current levels. Only 20 percent said tariffs should be decreased — a small minority that represents what remains of the party’s free-trade faction.
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Let me be the first to say “I voted for this.”
Grain of salt. You want them down to zero and sometimes you need to show we’re not messin’ around.
Chemotherapy can be necessary even if it kills more than the cancer.
American right?
Yes breitbart. The people who elected for him into the presidency
The theories behind unrestricted “free trade” were weed induced hallucinations favored by the Boomers.
As attributed to Yogi Berra, “in theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”
It was free trade in theory only.
Coach was right.
RE: Trump’s Tariffs Win Overwhelming Support From America’s Right
What about the Independents? (forget Democrats ).
“Only 20 percent said tariffs should be decreased — a small minority that represents what remains of the party’s free-trade faction.”
I’m all for free trade, but we’ve never had it. Not even close. Trump’s tariffs might help get us there.
I guess Canada doesn’t like Trump’s idea of tariffs because they’re using President Reagan’s speech against tariffs in an ad on Fox News. I wonder how much Fox is being paid to run an anti-Trump tariff ad??
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