and it is surprising because of their lack of willingness to stand up to the president, but this goes against conservative orthodoxy. we could not get sean duffy to break on if they are taxings on consumers, but consumers would say say of course they are. we are losing money on the tariffs. . the other thing is the law that was used to justify these tariffs is wrong. are they going to allow all of these delegations of responsibility to the president. he uses it time even time again.
because in this toxic who s worse battle, there is an opportunity for someone who says i m just going to get something done. trump comes up with these easy, quick answers. this is a solution. and off they don t work out. people will learn this about the tax plan when it goes on. that s what tariffs are. he said i told you i d help you. here i am. this will hurt people, they just won t know it for a while. the president s negotiating and political strategy is to take extreme positions and then sometimes move his way to the middle. what s odd about tariffs and his protectionist impulses is this odd coalition between the far left and the far right. the populism. that is what he is trying is stand on o. not conservative orthodoxy. particularly with this pennsylvania special election in mind.
going? it certainly has divided the west wing. i can t overstate how much chaos was surrounding this decision yesterday and how it was going back and forth and nobody knew what was going to happen until the president called them into the room. it s the first time he really substantively challenged conservative orthodoxy in the year of being president. except the day before when he was talking about guns. substantively orthodoxy. him floating ideas with diane feinstein about guns. trump became a republican, right? trump governed, really, as any of the other candidates would have governed, except his twitter feed. the substance of what he did, how many other candidates wouldn t have signed that tax bill that congress put on his desk? this is actually him saying, i do believe in something that s not party orthodoxy.
jen, t means democrats will start making a picy argument against trump, not a character argument anymore? i think what you have to do is both of them. what we found in the campaign was what most concerned people actually was making a character argument but now that i mean i think if you look at where this week started where we thought what was supposed to happen this week the house is supposed to pass their repeal and replace bill on health care. they were supposed to have a budget well received because it s conservative orthodoxy and, you know, the end of the week and quite a mess. if they actually enact the health care bill that they say they re going to i think they re not going to be able to do it then i think you have a real policy argument to make to trump voters. some so committed to him i don t think it will matter but it ll probably it s going to matter to enough of them that you could beat them next time. very quickly to everybody, gentlemen, i start with you. is it