Sarah Longwell: Joni Ernst Handed The Dems a Huge Advantage
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The Bulwark
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🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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They also discuss the growing conservative backlash to Trump’s tariff chaos, the cowardice in Congress, and the looming political consequences for GOP lawmakers trying to gaslight their own voters.
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| 0:24.5 | Wallace's show where we were talking about tariffs, how voters and small businesses are |
| 0:29.8 | feeling about it. But my favorite part was that we talked about that incredibly insane, |
| 0:34.9 | creepy Joni Ernst video. She doubled down on this idea that like, I don't know, |
| 0:42.0 | just cool. We're all going to die. So who cares about anything? Especially policy, I guess. |
| 0:48.0 | Hope you enjoy it. Check it out. Don't forget to subscribe. See you guys. When I come home to Kentucky, |
| 0:53.2 | I talk to the Farm Bureau, which is opposed to the tariffs. |
| 0:57.7 | I talk to the bourbon industry, which is opposed to the tariffs. |
| 1:00.9 | I talk to the cargo companies, UPS, T HL, all of their pilots are opposed to it. |
| 1:05.6 | I talk to the hardwood floor people. |
| 1:08.0 | I talk to the people selling houses, building houses. |
| 1:10.5 | I have no organized |
| 1:12.1 | business interest in Kentucky for the tariffs. So I think it's worth the discussion, and it's worth |
| 1:18.4 | people remembering that the Republicans used to be for lower taxes. Tariffs are a tax. So if you |
| 1:23.5 | raise taxes on the private sector, that's not good for the private sector. |
| 1:35.2 | We are grateful to Senator Rand Paul for searching for the tariff fan and telling everyone that there aren't any. |
| 1:43.0 | He's giving voice to what has been abundantly obvious to everyone outside of the Maga Bubble since day one, and we welcome him to reality. |
| 1:45.3 | Pretty much, as he said, no one wants Trump's tariffs. |
| 1:49.9 | The senator is just one of the many conservatives now publicly pushing back on insanity. |
| 1:55.4 | Donald Trump's attempt to play chicken with the American and potentially global economy. |
| 2:00.6 | New York Times reports today that a super |
| 2:02.9 | group of conservative legal giants have united to put forward an amicus brief opposing Donald |
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