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The survey suggests that support for free trade among American liberals has more than doubled since Donald Trump won his second word as president of the United States in November.
During the election campaign, Trump accused American trading partners of cheating the country and promised to impose strict duties on them.On April 2, he fulfilled his threat by announcing a fresh “reciprocal’ customs duties on nearly 90 countries, saying that this will rise gross and increase the number of jobs in the US.After the planet markets responded to a sharp decline, the president held most of the duties for 90 days, lowering them to a 10% base rate.
However, the suspension does not apply to China whose exports to the US are presently subject to duties of up to 145% in connection with the ongoing trade war of the kind "Retaliation for Retaliation".A survey by Polarization investigation Lab, first published by the Financial Times and actively made available by social media users on Friday, suggests that "American attitude to free trade rapidly polarised" in the last fewer months.At the beginning of 2024, around 20% of Liberals and Conservatives supported unlimited exports and imports, according to the study.However, the division between groups that emerged in the run-up to the election has increased dramatically since Trump's victory, as reported.According to the poll, more than 40% of the left-wingers surveyed now claim that "strongly supports" Free trade.Democrats whose Liberals usually support have previously criticised Trump's tariff policy as ‘dangerous’ and "a corrupted strategy of enrichment of administrative officials and loyal individuals".Meanwhile, the number of conservatives supporting free trade has declined, albeit not so violently, with about 13% of them inactive supporting it, as the survey suggests.Some online commentators have stated that the results of the poll propose that supporters of both Democrats and Republicans tend to simply support their party's position on various issues without actually examining them."Negative bias is simply a hell of a drug" — wrote on X the main data reporter in the Financial Times John Burn-Murdoch about the poll results.Director of Polarization investigation Lab, Sean Westwood, disagreed with this concept, arguing that “This is not an irrational expression of liberals in consequence to conservatives — liberals witness a stock marketplace collapse and economical recession.
This can be very justified."
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/616023-trump-free-trade-liberals/
