The left is almost completely unanimous in their support for lowering interest rates, and have been screaming about it for years, since the first moment they started being raised again. And for the same reasons that Trump wants it, except without the negative connotations for some reason.

Recently, I've heard many left wingers, as a response to Trump's tariffs, start 1) railing about taxes being too high, and that tariffs are taxes so they're bad, and 2) saying that the US trade deficit is actually wonderful because it gives us all this free money for nothing.

I know all of these are opposite positions to every one of the central views of the left of 30 years ago, but politics is a video game now. Lefties are going out of their way to repeat the old progressive refrain:

> "The way that Trump is doing it is all wrong, is a sign of mental instability, is cunning psychopathic genius and will resurrect Russia's Third Reich, but in a twisted way he has blundered into something resembling a point..."

"...the Fed shouldn't be independent and they should lower interest rates now."

Who cares? Even if it were true, why is your first reflex to point the finger at progressives when they're absolutely irrelevant to the current government?

People are upset at the tariffs as taxes because they hurt poorer people more. That’s how it works when everyone pays the same amt of taxes

I have not heard a single left wing pundit demand interest rates go down