Targeted tariffs as part of a trade war is significantly different than the proposed universal tariffs to "eliminate taxes" that he's proposed.

AKA: we figured out how to pass a consumption tax which disproportionately hurts poor people without calling it that because we know it's universally unpopular. When billionaires effective tax rate drops to what will probably be 1%, the wheels are going to REALLY fall off.

It isn't the poor that fund either political parties.

Not their campaigns, no. But the labor of the poor make the world go around. And their votes count just as much as a billionaires.

> And their votes count just as much as a billionaires.

Billionaires fund, and in some cases directly craft, the narratives that shape the voter’s perception of the political landscape.

Solid point, I just wanted to emphasize the potential power of those at the bottom. Sadly they also aren't educated as thoroughly and so become prey to be exploited.

For this they would need to unite. Those who fund to influence are doing so, so that it never happens.