The Multi-Billion-Dollar Gag Order on Democrats

The following article, The Multi-Billion-Dollar Gag Order on Democrats, was first published on The Black Sphere. Early 2025 the airwaves were thick with the kind of panic you’d expect if someone announced free kale smoothies at the Burning Man. “Tariffs will crush the economy!” screech the cable news anchors, their faces twisted like they just bit into a lemon dipped in regret. “Prices will skyrocket! Jobs will evaporate! Donald J. Trump is single-handedly dragging us back to the Stone Age—minus the affordable flint tools!” Democrats, ever the prophets of peril, lined up like a bad sequel to The Day After Tomorrow, assuring us that Trump’s tariff renaissance would be the fiscal equivalent of Y2K, but with actual meltdowns instead of frozen servers. Cut to today, and… crickets. Not a peep. Why? Because, in the immortal words of that one uncle who always wins at Monopoly, it worked. Yeah, you heard that right. The big, bad tariffs aren’t just not killing us—they’re padding the federal coffers like a Mafia-rigged slot Vegas machine. Trump’s tariff income is chipping away at the deficit mountain that Democrats spent four years pretending was a feature, not a bug. The same folks who swore this was...