Summary
Trump’s erratic tariff policies threaten American manufacturing’s recent renaissance.
Under Biden, manufacturing investment increased 220% from 2021-2024 through programs like the Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPS Act, creating 750,000 manufacturing jobs.
Trump has illegally frozen IRA spending despite court orders and called the CHIPS Act “horrible,” advocating for its repeal.
Princeton professor Jesse Jenkins estimates Trump’s actions could lead to massive cancellations in EV and battery production.
Unlike Biden’s targeted tariffs paired with domestic investments, Trump imposes duties randomly without clear goals, creating economic uncertainty that discourages investment while risking recession.
I thought it might be a good idea to get a protest going every evening where people go out and bang their pots and pans for a few minutes, just on the doorstep or walking the block doing it with neighbours. Here in england we did it for weeks to support our health service during covid, but it’s been used to protest many times around the world. I guess it’s something which needs organisation to get a lot of people on board but its convenient, safe and hard to ignore when a lot of people keep doing it.
That sounds like it could annoy your neighbors while the people in power have no idea it’s even happening.
There is such a thing as the media. I started banging my pan because I heard my neighbours doing it and looked it up. Then again, people here don’t usually have guns. The idea is that it goes on for a long time and winds up being reasonably widespread. Also it’s an expression of solidarity.