Who’s Letting This Happen? Start Naming Names.

This isn’t just a story about tariffs or inflation or 401(k)s tanking. This is a story about political cowardice, intentional sabotage, and every single leader who refuses to do their job while our economy, our democracy, and our credibility burn.

Let’s stop generalizing. Let’s start naming names.

💥 What Just Happened (And Why It’s Insane)

On April 3, 2025, Trump’s administration launched a universal 10% tariff on all imports—with 34% slapped on Chinese goods and 20% on imports from the EU.

Markets collapsed:

S&P 500 dropped over 3% (SPY ETF)
NASDAQ fell nearly 5%
Dow lost more than 1,200 points (AP News)
Dollar dropped 2.16% (Business Insider)
Retaliation from China: 34% tariffs on U.S. exports starting April 10 (The Guardian)

The economic “logic” behind this move? Nonexistent. Tariffs were imposed across the board, including on countries we barely trade with. There was no targeted pressure, no strategy. Just an indiscriminate economic hand grenade.

And Congress? Mostly crickets.

🧨 Is This Incompetence—or Intentional?

We’ve got two options:

1. Incompetence: They don’t understand economics. They don’t understand power. They’re just flailing, and we’re paying the price.

2. Intentional: This is a power grab. Create chaos, consolidate control, silence opposition, break the system so they can rebuild it in their image.

Either one is a crisis. Both together? That’s how democracies fall.

🐘 Republicans: Flip-Floppers, Frauds, and Enablers

Let’s start with the biggest hypocrisy in the room.

Donald Trump, 2012:

“If the Dow drops more than 1,000 points in two days the President should be impeached immediately!”

Donald Trump, 2025:

Pushes a tariff policy that drops the market over 1,200 points in a single day.

Where’s the outrage? Where are the resignations? Where are the “patriots” now?

J.D. Vance – Now Vice President:

Once warned that Trump was “cultural heroin” for the GOP.
2018: Questioned the effectiveness of tariffs, warning about their impact on working-class Americans.
2025: Defends Trump’s economic warfare with zero irony or acknowledgment.

Josh Hawley, Rick Scott, and Mike Johnson:

Applauded the tariffs or stayed silent.
Former defenders of “free markets” now embracing command-and-control economics when their guy’s in charge.

They don’t care about consistency. They care about power. And they’ll flip, flop, or lie to keep it.

🧍 Democrats: Where Are the Fighters?

Yes, the GOP is leading this mess—but silence from Democrats is complicity too.

Connecticut Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy:

Experienced, credible, and perfectly positioned to sound the alarm.
So where are the bold bills? The floor speeches? The coordinated messaging?

Reps Courtney, DeLauro, Hayes:

We need more than “deep concern.” We need fire. We need action.
Where’s the push for emergency hearings? Where’s the public outrage?

When the house is on fire, you don’t write a memo. You grab the hose.

😡 Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?

That’s the million-dollar question: Was anyone really dumb enough to believe this would help?

Every major economist warned against it.

Tariffs are inflationary, not deflationary.
They reduce consumer purchasing power.
They trigger retaliation that crushes American farmers and manufacturers.

So no—this wasn’t about helping Americans. This was about burning the system, creating a crisis, and using the chaos to concentrate control.

This is not policy. This is economic arson with a straight face.

🛑 What Needs to Happen Now

Congress must reclaim trade authority. Limit unilateral tariffs through binding legislation.
Federal lawsuits must be filed. Challenge executive overreach in court—now.
Call out every flip-flopper. Remind your friends, your reps, your social feed—who said what, and when.
Demand public hearings. Make every lawmaker go on record.

⚠️ Final Word: Call the Cowards Out

If your senator or rep isn’t doing everything in their power to fight this—they’re helping it happen.

They don’t get to hide behind committees or platitudes. They don’t get to pretend they didn’t know. They don’t get to say it’s “not that bad.”

We know what’s happening. We know who’s enabling it. And it’s up to us to expose every name and hold every damn one accountable.

Because if we don’t, this won’t stop at tariffs. It won’t stop at markets. It won’t stop at democracy.

It will stop when there’s nothing left to burn.