Donald Trump Imposes 25% Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum

?BREAKING: Trump puts 25% tariff on steel unless it’s made in USA

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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 11, 2025

? White House Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing, Peter Navarro, praises President Trump's robust steel and aluminum tariffs:

"It protects our national security, it protects American workers and American manufacturing, and generates a lot of revenues…" pic.twitter.com/kweKLT6MEp

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 11, 2025

This is a great example of where we are at now under Trump 2.0.

CNN:

“President Donald Trump on Monday imposed a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imports into the United States with no exceptions or exemptions.

Although the United States gets most of its steel from Canada, Brazil and Mexico, the tariffs are largely — albeit indirectly — aimed at China.

“This is a big deal — making America rich again,” Trump said in announcing the tariffs, according to a pool report.

America imports very little steel directly from China, by far the world’s largest producer of steel. Steel tariffs of 25% launched in Trump’s first administration and continued by former President Joe Biden resulted in American importers shifting to other sources. …”

When I got started and was developing my political views in the early 2000s, supporting tariffs and industrial policy was paleocon blasphemy and heresy on the Right. The same was true about taking various positions on a number of controversial subjects like race and immigration.

In those days, the “Dissident Right” space was much larger. If you uttered even the mildest defense of White people, you were cast out of respectable conservatism as a “racist.” The SPLC and ADL were still considered respected “watchdog organizations.” “Journalists” were not dismissed as the Enemy of the People. The mainstream Right was generally pro-war, pro-immigration and pro-free trade and was criticized from the fringes by people like Sam Francis, Pat Buchanan and Lou Dobbs.

Today, the positions that Pat Buchanan and Lou Dobbs took on trade and immigration are the mainstream of the Republican Party and are being implemented as policy. We’re getting very close to the point where you can be explicitly pro-White and fully mainstream. It was edgy just four years ago to use loaded terms like “anti-White” but that is now commonplace. The Great Replacement broke into the mainstream when Biden was president. It is now mainstream to use terms like White genocide.

Note: The latest news is that Elon Musk is floating the idea of Ron Paul as Fed chairman. Try explaining any of this to anyone in the movement around 15 years ago.