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Targetpractice5/31/2018 10:29:47 am PDT

re: #485 Jay C

It doesn’t benefit the US: it benefits Donald Trump and his Administration. Mainly in “ratings” and press coverage, but since that’s all this clownshow of an Admin cares about, Mission Accomplished!

“German luxury cars” is nice tidy shorthand even the rubes (i.e. Joe Lunchbucket out in Rustburg, PA) can understand. “Luxury cars” as something they might want, but can’t (and will never be able to) afford: so as to play off their resentment of those (affluent America-hating libruls, mostly) who can. And “German” as shorthand for “Rich Socialist Foreign Freeloading Unfair-Trader” - and because Germans always make good political punching-bags.

Of course, this being Trump he can always reverse his policy on a dime (or Euro) - possibly excepting domestically-produced “German” cars, perhaps, in a token nod to the many billions of dollars German automakers have invested in production facilities over here. But who knows…?

And it’s more of the “America is the Best Country EVAH!” BS that is (In reality) a thinly veiled attempt at protectionism. The Big Three have been hurting for decades due to foreign imports, including losing pretty much the majority of the luxury market to European companies. So this ban is a two-fer: Show how “pro-American” he is while also trying to give the Big Three an unfair advantage in a market that they have struggled for years to regain.