A Booming Economy or a Broken Base—Which Will Be Your Legacy?

You’ve built your brand on being a winner, a dealmaker, a leader who delivers prosperity. Right now, you have a chance to cement your legacy as the president who strengthened America’s economy, not the one who torched it with a trade war. The reality is simple: Americans don’t want more expensive groceries, cars, and gas. Your base—the hard-working people who put you in office—can’t afford these tariffs. Prices are rising, wages aren’t keeping up, and farmers, small businesses, and manufacturers are already struggling. They love you now, but if their wallets take a hit, how loyal do you think they’ll stay? Mexico and Canada aren’t enemies—they’re our two biggest trading partners. China isn’t going to back down—they’re going to hit back harder. And when they do, the people feeling the pain won’t be foreign governments—it’ll be your voters, the ones who believe you have their backs. Now, you’re in a position to do something truly historic. You can end this trade war on your terms and take credit for restoring economic stability. You can be the leader who brought prices down, saved American jobs, and kept businesses thriving. You can turn this around and look like the economic genius your supporters believe you are. But if you don’t? If prices continue to rise and jobs are lost? If working-class Americans start to feel the squeeze and blame you for it? You risk something bigger than just a bad headline. You risk breaking the spell of your base. And if they wake up to the consequences of these tariffs and start questioning you? If they stop seeing you as their champion? You may not have the support you need to stay in power as long as you want to. You can still win this—but only if you put America first and end this trade war now.