What ends up destroying fascism is prizing loyalty above all else. If you look at the likes of Luaren Boebert or Marjorie Taylor-Greene, these are seriously, without hyperbole, some of the dumbest people on the planet. But they're loyal. And that's the point, so we end up with sycophantic morons.<p>I say this because if we had a legislative branch that hadn't completely abdicated its responsibility, they would act to strip tariff power from the president, at least temporarily, which they can do with a simple Act of Congress with a veto-proof supermajority. The Democrats would be on board.<p>Just remember this: as much damage as the president is causing, Congress could step in at any moment but they don't and won't, at least until things get much, much worse.<p>Blanket tariffs don't work. The goal here seems to be to reduce reliance on Chinese goods (without setting up any manufacturing to replace it, I might add) and/or to get rid of the one remaining progressive tax: income tax.<p>We have precedent for all this: tariffs in the early part of the Great Depression. And what did they do? They made everything worse and the US sunk further into recession.<p>I'm not sure people realize just how dire the situation is. In other countries, this would have us sliding dangerously close to coup territory. Yet a significant portion of our population, who are the most affected and will see their standard of living decline further, celebrate it.<p>How are those egg prices doing?