Craig Fuller, the CEO of FreightWaves, a freight-focused organization that analyzes the freight and logistics market, has regretted "enthusiastically" supporting President Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 election, warning that the administration's policies are likely to "wipe out supply chains an...
It’s amazing how similar this was to the support of the Nazis.
The Nazis voter base was similarly petty bourgeoisie. Or what we would call today “middle class small business owners”.
They had been suffering similarly from capital concentration and unable to compete with larger business that could negotiate tariffs (or otherwise) because of their volumes. But they fell for the Nazi talking points about Jews and Immigrants as the Nazi party still fundamentally aligned with their class interest.
And when the Nazi’s took power they put more power into large business and concentrated capital even more. Turning their backs on their voter base. And so the small businessman was forced into working class as they losed their capital.
Tarrifs are being used as an attack on the working class and forcing the petty bourgeoisie to sell their capital. It’s history repeating itself.