Her great-grandfather was behind the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. She thinks Trump’s tariffs are 'terrible.'

NBC News | Comcast ^ | April 2, 2025 | By Daniel Arkin (D-NBC)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[desertsolitaire]

And....?

[MayflowerMadam]

Wow. A retired nurse chimes in on tariffs. Impressive. Everybody pay attention.

[central_va]

But the impact of trade was miniscule when compared to the size of the overall economic contraction. Government expenditures remained essentially constant, but private consumption and investment plummeted. Of the $131 billion in lost economic output over the five-year period, only about $0.7 billion seems attributable to trade. This is shown as the last entry in the last row of the table. In either absolute or relative terms, the trade portion of the economic contraction of the Great Depression appears to be of little import.

Read more here: Smoot-Hawley and the Depression

[Sirius Lee]

If tariffs are so terrible, then why do all our "free trade" partners levy them against us?

What mechanism or negotiating tactic exists to convince our trade partners to lower them?

[clee1]

This is news? The opinion of the great granddaughter of a depression era congresscritter???

Jeez...

[mewzilla]

WATCH: White House officials just released a lecture on why the tariffs are a game changer. Stephen Miller really understands it.

And be sure to read the comments on the thread.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[central_va]

Smoot Hawley myth/lie is a favorite globalist tool to fool us into hanging ourselves.

[OttawaFreeper]

I recall reading in one of Milton Freidman’s books about how the Depression had a lot more to do with FDR’s meddling with the banks and related issues. The real nasty years of that time were years like 1933, ‘34, and ‘35 due to Roosevelt and his policies.

[stanne]

What a bunch of whiners. TDS or not.

Rand Paul. This non qualified hair styling compromised screecher they dragged out of the woodwork. MSDNC hosts

Trump is a great economics and finance mind. He studied at Wharton. His education is not nepo. He amassed a great fortune NOT by robber baroning, not by taking money from wink nod DNC or RNC donors and not by cheating but by knowing finance and using what he knows

Whatever he does here is going to work

None of these idiots have said word one about the congress and the last few execs running up 40 trillion in debt

[quilterdebbie]

Uh....who cares!

[mewzilla]

And check out how the UK's Deep State is spinning the decision on de minimis...

Trump shuts major online shopping loophole in blow to bargain hunters as his sweeping tariffs take effect PODCAST: Trump's 'Liberation Day' Tariffs, plus shock call for Death Penalty in Luigi Mangioni case. Listen to Welcome to MAGAland here.

Listen to them squeal...

[b4me]

just because her great grandpa messed up doesn’t mean same will happen today with different people, situations etc.

As we know, some times it’s other things (or people) connected to the main thing that contributes to the main thing not doing as intended.

[quilterdebbie]

Right! I read “The Forgotten Man” by Amity Shlaes that goes into that stuff too.

[Recompennation]

And voted for harris too.
I read no further

[Ignatz]

This article is a perfect example of why “Arguments from Authority” are easily refuted.

[griswold3]

Agree. Today is Totally different now. US hasn’t had a trade surplus since 2001.

[b4me]

this woman lived a life of shame because of hearing things from her mom? name change was her savior? you can’t escape self imposed stupid.

[Gay State Conservative]

Seems to me that if there are tariffs levied against our goods/services by a particular country then we can reciprocate.