Dems are making attacks on Trump rates, says the Washington Post editorialist
The editorialist of the Washington Post Catherine Ramcell slammed the Democratic Party on Friday in order not to be more aggressive in its criticisms a The rates of President Donald Trump.
In a new piece, the supported the editorialist of the economy That liberal legislators are not respecting the threat of rates with their “petty” concerns.
“This was the Midtract critic of the commercial wars of President Donald Trump by many Democrats last week. They tried awkwardly between Trump’s catastrophic ideas and proportion support for their equally lively ideas, if at the bottom, in scale, there is no wonder.
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RAMPELL has described how bad the rates will be, stating that “the annual costs of a typical $ 2,700” family will increase and that due to them, the risks of recession have increased, the companies have started the workers and our allies once closed are launching the bird “.
He said that democratic legislators should have a day on the field on this, but they are not.
“If this is a curse for the economy of the United States, it should be a manna for democratic politicians. Instead, the Democrats are blowing their luck,” he added, adding, “rather than screaming from the roofs that commercial wars are bad, the democrats have made around” yes, but “. Yes, these particular rates are expensive and regressive, they say, but when the Democrats impose rates, They present these disadvantages “.
RAMPELL mentioned how the party seemed to contradict itself on the rates in the past, noting how “the rates of the first administration of Trump” in the middle and 2020 elections of 2018, shortly before adopting them as their own “.
The governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer looks while the president of the United States Donald Trump signs an executive order in the oval office of the White House on April 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
As the editorialist said, the former president Biden “extended (almost) all the existing Trump rates”, even after having previously reported them. “In some cases, he expanded them or replaced them with slightly different commercial barriers. He did so with a strong support of his party,” he wrote.
RAMPELL then torn more characters of the Democratic Party who have had more nuanced discussion points on the rates of President Trump in the last few days, also Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Mich., who met Trump in the oval office several times this year to discuss his protectionist policies.
Whitmer carefully criticized Trump rates, also recognizing and understanding the “motivation of the president behind the rates” and even agree with Trump that we must “do more things in America”.
Rampell slammed Whitmer for criticizing the rates, but did not provide them with any real alternative.
“Wednesday, the governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer (D) kept a speech by criticizing Trump for the branded rates as a” hammer “. When he was asked how the rates in a different way was deployed, Whitmer could not answer.
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The editorialist also slammed the senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., For criticizing Trump’s rates while he had Supported biden. He wrote that Warren’s “real problem with Trump rates is that companies will use them as an excuse for the” price price “and profit. The massacre of the stock market suggests that investors disagree that the rates will be profitable. But even if Warren’s criticism was true, the same logic should be applied to the biden-née-trump warmen.”
He also accused “handled populist thinkers” of criticizing only Trump because the rates are not used for their agenda. Furthermore, Rampell said that the party leaning in “a corner” on this topic because they are also trying to appeal to their supporters in the pro-rifle electoral colleges, such as the unions.
The editorialist concluded his points, claiming that since “Americans or Trump’s rates”, “Democrats should stop punching”.
“What the country needs is an unequivocal and full condemnation of pandering protectionism,” he said.
