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Originally Posted by Azure
Doesn't change anything for at least 2 years and by that time the Canadian economy is not doing very well.
If there is any truth to the fentanyl stuff, and knowing of course that tomorrow they could say something else, pretty sure Canada could move pretty fast on being more aggressive in dealing with it. The problem is that the goal posts will be moved again tomorrow.
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Stuff can change long before the next election. If Trump has an approval rating in the 30s a couple of months from now, Republicans in blue states who enjoy their cushy jobs in Congress are going to start to get nervous about the blowback affecting them. Same with representatives in regions that will be hit hard by tariffs. Look at what happened from 2017-2019; Republicans had a 50-seat majority in the House, but Trump wasn't able to do a whole lot. Now they have a 4-seat majority.
And that doesn't even get into the fact that a lot of the hardline libertarian members don't necessarily support what he's doing either. Rand Paul has come out against the tariffs, calling them a tax increase on Americans. Right now everyone is showing fealty to Trump coming off his recent election win, but that won't necessarily continue.