>They are just a negotiating tactic. I highly doubt many of them will be permanent.
The US has "negotiated" itself into a full-blown trade war. All sides are amped up, and nobody is backing down. That translates to much pain will need to happen before anybody will budge.
>Last I've heard at least 50 countries have at least expressed interest in negotiating new trade deals.
Yes, some countries will bend the knee to protect their economy. But it's not negotiation. Negotiations don't happen when one side comes up with an absurdly high demand and tasks the other side to talk it down. The US is simply a bully that others have to placate.
If you want to talk long-term, here's the long-term: The reason that the US has such a big club now to whack on other countries is because we have positioned ourselves to be the center of world trade, ever since WW2. The US dollar is the world's reserve currency. We are (were) the champion of the free world, the lynchpin of the West. That carries a lot of influence and control. For the short-term, we (the US) have clout from which we can extract concessions from friends and allies.
For the long term, nobody likes a bully. Whatever influence and control the US once had will ebb away, is already ebbing away. The EU/Can/et al have already started the process when we kicked Ukraine to the curb and cozied up to Russia. The economic warfare the US is currently waging on the world is just the latest in a series of insults.
The world is bigger than the US. Countries will reorient themselves without us. Trade ties will be rewired, and we will be on the outside looking in. The US will still be a large country with a powerful military, but our influence will be gone, along with all the perks that come with it, and that we all take for granted.
That is the real casualty from all this. The loss of stature as a leading light, and inspiration for people from all over the world, to being just another hegemonic power, using its power for only its benefit. That's what makes me sad.
>March's jobs reports gives me some hope too
March's job report came before the infamous L-day.
>All the new potential factories you mentioned, also means more good paying construction jobs.
Yes, that's the promise.
Look, I think you are sincere in your views, so I will be as well. I think it's safe to say that neither of us will change the other's mind. I do respect your desire for the country to do better. We all want that.
What I noted from your above points is that they all come from WH talking points. Fair enough. You believe in your govt. My only suggestion is that you expand your news sources to encompass other view points, and not from only one side, because for differences to be resolved, it won't be just one side that dictates the terms.
But the likelihood is that you won't do that, either. The tendency of people, when encountering dissenting views, is to entrench deeper in their view. Also fair. Then, my last sentiment is that I agree, that we should just wait and see what happens next. The rhetoric will meet reality soon enough.
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