In the bizarro world of American politics, Republicans who usually rail against tax increases and warn of executive overreach are completely silent as President Donald Trump unilaterally imposes massive tax increases on imported goods.

This past week brought only further confirmation of the mindless and harmful nature of the president’s tax hike-spree.

With American farmers struggling to find consumers as a result of countries imposing retaliatory tariffs on American goods, the president declared he would be using tariff revenue to bailout American farmers.

“We’re going to take some of that tariff money that we made, we’re going to give it to our farmers, who are, for a little while, going to be hurt until the tariffs kick into their benefit,” the president told reporters on Thursday.

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