Did I mention sanctions

Oh sorry, boycotts. It is so much easier to organize massive international boycott than a national general strike.

Yes, it is genuinely much easier to get 10% of people to stop buying Tesla and using YouTube than convince 10% of people to lose their jobs and become homeless

Lots of American goods have good substitutes or are totally discretionary purchases. Look how Europe dropped Tesla. Imagine Apple, YouTube, Levi’s, etc experiencing the same crashes www.carscoops.com/2025/08/tesl...

Did these collapses for Tesla spurn any action in DC?

They convinced Elon Musk to resign his fake position and openly accuse Trump of being a pedophile

If Alphabet, Meta, Boeing, Ford, and Apple all run losses this year the administration’s trade policies will look like a huge failure and voters will notice

Voters notoriously love big tech and their profit margins.

Voters dislike layoffs and recession. You think massive layoffs along American manufacturers is going to be popular?

So in your economic downturn only the rich get affected?

And that accomplished what exactly?

DOGE reversed tons of cuts and functionally stopped existing

That was happening prior to the decrease in sales.

Prior to Feb 5 arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02...

How is a 10% reduction in YouTube views going to force DC into action that’s not subsidies for Alphabet?

Demand shock —> layoffs and corporate bankruptcies are precisely what broke the power of the post-9/11 neocon Republican Party