From what I know from friends in a few different industries, it's fucking brutal right now. Raw materials/parts costs from China have all increased and not by a bit, but by huge amounts. Finished product prices all have to go up to compensate which means sales of... everything not completely essential are falling. All the lost jobs also means less money to go around for consumers, which of course means even fewer sales which means more layoffs. And that's not even going into sectors that are dependent on migrant labor and all the downstream industries from THEM.

Truly just masterstrokes of policy from the current administration. Well maybe people will finally start paying attention when what's left of American manufacturing eats shit. You'll have to forgive me if I'm skeptical though. Huge swathes of the American public are so utterly underwater in propaganda that they've lost the ability to reason entirely.

Yeah John Deere (who is a big manufacturer in the US) has seen material costs up ... and due to the tariff fight farmers don't want to buy new equipment. Big double whammy.

And they're they employ 30k people, many in manufacturing in the US.

We have create a massive cult at the national level. There is no reasoning with them. There is nothing that this administration can do to offend them or shake their confidence.

> Huge swathes of the American public are so utterly underwater in propaganda that they've lost the ability to reason entirely.

They're right here on HN as well.

And they're accusing the rest that they are the ones that are drinking the kool aid. It's a pretty weird time, tbh, I never ever thought it would get this bad. But I've seen some glimpses of it, a Dutch guy I know emigrated to the USA, got married to a woman in one of the heartland states and within a short few months he was completely on the Trump bandwagon and saying and writing stuff that his previous incarnation would be horrified at.