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Welcome to It could happen here, a podcast that much of the chagrin of my upstairs neighbors is being recorded at almost 3 in the morning.

It is being recorded at 3 in the morning instead of at a normal time because a bunch of

protests broke out across college campuses against the genocide in Palestine. We will cover that at some point very soon.

However, comma, there is this episode to be done. I'm your host Mia Wong and this episode is something a little different.

So there's an element of Trump's Agenda 47 that we didn't really talk about in our episodes.

That's actually a pretty significant amount of the material and that's Trump's trade policy.

And this is sort of surprisingly a very large part of his pitch.

The sort of gist of it is that Trump's appeal to like the White Working Class

T. M. is. Okay, we're going to do a bunch of

protectionist terrorists. This is going to bring jobs back to the US by

imposing costs on manufacturing in other countries, etc.

This will bring jobs back to America

and it will make America a greater some shit.

Now, the centerpiece of this is what's called the Reciprocal Tariff Bill.

And it's not that complicated. Basically what it says is if a country

imposes a tariff on an American good. The US imposes identical tariff on that

tariff. It's designed to basically automatically start trade wars. Now the

reason we didn't cover this in in the original agenda 47

slative episodes is that even in the worst case scenario where Trump takes power in like

a coup and you know the the sort of power of

anyone to oppose him is significantly curtailed I don't think he can get this one passed and

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