Remember earlier this year when President Trump was locked in a tit-for-tat trade war with China? Then, a broad coalition of Democrats, corporate media outlets, mainstream economists, and left-leaning think tanks warned that higher tariffs would spark pandemic-era supply-chain chaos and trigger price spikes for consumers. Two quarters later, those dire predictions have yet to materialize.
MSM propagandists sounded the apocalypse alarm:
- March: KOMO News: ‘It’s worse than COVID’: Point Roberts seeks state aid amid US-Canada tariff crisis
- April: NBC News: Product shortages and empty store shelves loom with falling shipments from China
- April: Fortune: Tariffs threaten a pharmaceuticals shortage, as 95% of ibuprofen comes from China
- April: CNBC: The trade war’s wave of retail shortages will hit U.S. consumers in stages.
- April: Axios: How Trump tariffs could cause a global recession
- April: Vox: America may be headed for this rare type of economic crisis
- April: CNN: Trump took the US economy to the brink of a crisis in just 100 days
- May: The Guardian: Trump’s tariffs: ‘It feels like Covid 2.0. So many things are getting disrupted’
- May: Business Insider: The worst is yet to come: Trump’s tariffs could mean even higher prices and empty shelves within weeks
Democratic Party and MSM’s supply-chain apocalypse alarm peaked in mid-April, then resurfaced in a smaller echo wave by August, according to Bloomberg data tracking mainstream media headline counts for the term “tariff.”
Hellbound and Down 