General Discussion

bring down the prices as much as what consumer reluctance will. The meat sections in stores are more or less deserted in many cases. Perishables react the quickest to consumer reluctance. US beef isn't priced based on the tariffs. I don't see prices for non-perishables falling much anytime soon. The effects on agriculture of the immigration deportations have been working their way through the system also.

Put simply the fascists have screwed things up in nearly every aspect of the economy and supply chain for almost every industry. For example there is an ample supply of petroleum but the prices remain high and the fascists response is to push for more supply into the system. But the price for oil, because supply is already adequate and then some, remains down. The supply and price for a barrel of oil is not affecting the high prices at the pump. So their push will do nothing for the consumer or the producer. It is ignorant policy.

The same with housing for example. Providing support for mortgages on over-priced housing still leaves the consumer strapped to ever higher housing costs. Eventually this is all unsustainable. Each segment of life demanding an ever increasing percentage of the paycheck of the consumer has an inevitable breaking point. As those points approach and are hit the mismanagement by fools like the fascists makes things worse and worse.

Eventually this all gets to be like a dog chasing its tail and a society can deal with some of that in an aspect of daily life here and there while we fashion corrections but the downfall of authoritarians/fascists regarding their economies is that people/markets etc. don't respond well to ignorant "commands" and dictates. So as their programs fail the fascists become even more entrenched and more forceful towards their demands. That also is unsustainable. People have a point past where they won't go before striking back as you point out.

The answer to the question of whether the rich will benefit from the tariffs ending the answer is yes but it is because they have the game on both ends. They have more or less perfected playing the game in such a way that when times go bad they gain and when times are good they gain. any bumps along the way they have virtual control, right now, of government in order to get their tax cuts, subsidies, contracts, ownership interests, preferential treatment of investments etc. to yield the rigged system for themselves.