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Over the past month, President Donald Trump announced his release day with a gust of tariffs and then suspended it to negotiate trade deals, citing polls showing that even Democrats and some Republicans think the policy will economically hurt them.
Over the past few days I have travelled to West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky, but have not found a single Trump voter who regretted his choice against tariffs. It's not just one.
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In Jeffersonville, Indiana, I met Terry and his wife, Cassandra, in my late 60s. They live in Arizona and run a small business, in this case the Kentucky Derby, where Terry flies horse trainers to events.
“We need change and it can hurt at first,” Terry told me. “Trump needs time to make that change.”
I pushed the couple a bit and asked if part of the transaction was that it must be meaningful and lasting change, not just words. They both nodded with emphasis.
“That's what I voted for,” Cassandra told me.
columnists David Marcus (r.), Doug (l.) and Danny (c.) and two steel cleaners from Voss Clark of Jeffersonville, Indiana. (Fox News Digital)
Just as my new friend created it for me, this logical position may be summed up as “no pain or profit,” but it seems to have completely confused all the experts in New York City and Washington, DC.
Last week, poller Frank Lunz expressed his surprise. “I've never seen this,” he said. “Usually, when you get financially hurt, it changes your perspective and your politics. Not with these people. They're staying firmly.”
Luntz is good at his job and he is accurate here. But that shouldn't be a surprise. This is a very predictable outcome of how Trump voters are buried in the current situation.
Those who hold power and voices between DC and Gotham are not yet completely in agreement with the Trump phenomenon.
Look at it like this: Americans elected President Donald Trump of the United States. Donald Trump! Twice! There is no reasonable way to look at it. Voters wanted a stable hand to fix things in the margin, but they broke nothing.
Trump supporters won't run to the hills as the stock market is either resilient or the Barbie dolls get a few dollars in price.
Trump supporters won't run to the hills as the stock market is either resilient or the Barbie dolls get a few dollars in price.
Doug and Danny are both in their 50s, Doug is Danny's boss, and Danny runs a steel cleaning crew at the Vos Clark factory in Indiana. Talking with them, I was talking to both the management and the workforce, as well as two good friends.
Both are still on Trump. “In a heartbeat,” Danny told me when asked if he still voted for Trump. And it was the President's promise to end the taxes with overtime, not the tariffs they wanted to talk about.
Doug said the policy encourages “young workers) to move away from their loved ones and to produce for the customers we have, which we hope that we will not produce from Monday to Friday and we will achieve that.”
I was able to see some of this working in a steel cleaning facility just below the road. It was 10pm and the workers were cleaning huge rolls of steel, but they cleaned them overnight.
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These people like more than anyone I've ever met.
More than half of Voss Clark's employees make more than $100,000 a year. In southern Indiana, where the cost of living is low, it is the home and owner who buys money hard. Don't say these are jobs that native-born Americans don't want.
The whole liberal media, and even a decent chunk of conservative media on tariffs, may be noteworthy, despite Trump's voters still trusting him on the issue. But that shouldn't come as a surprise.
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For the first time in decades in places like Jeffersonville, men and women feel that there is a president on their side and that they place their needs before the stock market and intellectual needs.
Do these working Americans know that Trump's policies could fail? Certainly, they are not stupid. They are at risk. But they didn't vote to nurture the status quo, they did to destroy it, and some kind of economic discomfort is why they didn't scare them from Donald Trump.
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