I think the answer to Joe's question is that lots of people chafe at both kinds of pain -- disruption caused by tariffs and higher taxes -- provided their partisan lens allows for it.

But maybe we would all be more open to sacrifice for long-term goals if we had a common sense of nationhood and trust in our leaders -- both very remote right now.

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What the fuck does "diminishing the purchasing power of the rich" mean?

I assume printing more money and allocating it to the not-rich through whatever means.

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He's talking about higher taxes.

The claim he's making is that Trump loyalists appear to buy the line that higher prices are worth it to allegedly save U.S. manufacturing, but those some people would cry bloody murder if politicians raised taxes on the wealthy for the sake of some long-term cause.