President Trump’s tariffs are a $6 trillion tax on Americans. That’s the line and should be the only line Democrats use from now until midterms. It is the most unifying message that Democrats will ever have. And it will be devastating to Republicans in both federal and state elections. The only question: Are Democrats going to be disciplined enough to stay on message for the next 18 months.

Every American will go shopping in the next year and a half. We will go to grocery stores, retail stores, log onto Amazon, shop at farmers markets, look at cars, household appliances, and open up our wallets for Christmas time. And every one of us will constantly look at the prices we are paying, whether it’s our weekly grocery bill to gifts for the kids and feel our blood pressure rise.

And when we go to gripe about it online, we should see the same messaging from all Democrats. Trump’s tariffs are a $6 trillion tax on Americans. And for the first time in a long time, we are all about to have the same political anger. It hasn’t been that way for a while.

Let us be honest. Americans can be a selfish electorate. I can tell you that conservatives don’t mind people being hurt by the government as long as they, themselves personally aren’t hurt. We see this in all the federal employees who voted for Trump but were then

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