Why Do Conservatives Hate America?

They’re broadly supporting policies that will ruin American companies, cost Americans their jobs, and force Americans to pay more for goods and services. They support attacking our allies and opening up avenues for China to replace us in the global trade system. For a group whose motto is “Make America Great Again”, why do they consistently support policies aimed at crippling United States?

Trump’s tariffs are the biggest tax on American consumers since the 1940’s. It will cost the average American at least $1,000 dollars per year in consumption taxes, without accounting for retaliatory effects. We are both reducing our food supply workforce via deportation (even of legal citizens) and taxing the food supply via tariffs. A double whammy on price increases and inflation. Not to mention, he randomly poured out a large portion of California’s water supply for quite literally no reason, depleting the water available for our farmers this summer for irrigation.

Canada is our countries biggest supplier of energy. We are taxing that, too. We are taxing CANADA more than CHINA, who is the best positioned country to supplant us in global trade with both Canada and the EU. We are releasing cop beaters back into society and providing an unelected, non-government official in Elon Musk (who has significant business with and in China) with our private citizen’s information on banking and addresses.

Trump has spent two weeks focused explicitly on crippling the American economy, reducing our access to goods and services, making the ones we do have access to more expensive, and ensuring that things only get much worse from here. Conservatives meanwhile are whining and crying about Democrats, DEI, and people wanting to keep their bills down. They are cheering on inflation, government control of your personal information, China, and weakening of national security. It’s truly baffling how much they are rooting against their own country.