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Damn, I Feel So Liberated Today — The Week in Editorial Cartoons (Poll) - Update #6 [1]
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Date: 2025-04-02
First, the Good News from Wisconsin
That was an impressive show of Democratic Party unity last night in Wisconsin.
For those who think Trumpism is forever, there was unwelcome news among the Republicans who turned out to vote yesterday in Wisconsin: rural turnout was down compared to when Trump’s name was on the ballot in previous elections.
Brian Resinger, a Wisconsin Republican who specializes in rural policy, had predicted that rural turnout was going to be the determinative factor in the WI election. A negative result would be awful news for the Republican Party headed into the 2026 Midterm Elections.
Well...
Money isn’t Everything x Grilled Cheese
#ElonMusk
nickanderson.substack.com
[image or embed] — Nick Anderson - political cartoonist (@andertoon.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM Excellent job! “I’m honestly shocked. I thought we had it in the bag. I thought Musk was gonna be an asset for this race. People love Trump, but maybe they don’t love everybody he supports. Maybe I have blinders on.” — Pam Van Handel, Chair of the Republican Party of Wisconsin’s Outagamie County, quoted by Politico. “He’s becoming electoral poison,” said Evan Roth Smith, a Democratic pollster. “The Democratic Party is going to make Elon a central issue in its messaging, as it should, and Democrats are getting better at focusing on what matters to voters, which is the threat he poses to entitlements.” Link An Impressive Showing by the Democratic Party x DEMOCRATS WON IN WISCONSIN pic.twitter.com/N4OhoraOY4 — Marian Kamensky (@MarianKamensky1) April 2, 2025 Attribution for editorial cartoon at the very top: Dave Whamond, MSN
Lumberjacks — 1, Musk — 0
x Wisconsin isn't letting @elonmusk buy an election for Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/NQ5Hx6aHCS — Phil Hands (@PhilHands) April 2, 2025
The Wisconsin Democrats Had a Secret Weapon
x Greetings from Wisconsin pic.twitter.com/mVjE4U4YiI — Paul Noth (@PaulNoth) March 31, 2025
A Victory to Remember
x Susan Crawford took on the world's richest Nazi, Elon Musk — and kicked his fascist ass. 🙌🙏💪👏👊👇 pic.twitter.com/k0YczaQasZ — Bill Madden (@maddenifico) April 2, 2025
Manual Updates Posted Here
Update #6 — 7:35 pm ET
Not Happening Anytime Soon
Dream On
Update #5 — 7:27 pm ET
Arsonist
He Didn’t Start Started the Fire
Update #4 — 6:21 pm ET
Careful, Donnie...
x Please enjoy my cartoon in today's @TorontoStar pic.twitter.com/A6kJrAPkre — Theo Moudakis (@TheoMoudakis) April 2, 2025
… Or They Will Push Back
Update #3 — 6:00 pm ET
The Clown Car Tank
Don’t Mess With Canada
x Or they frame it that we’re mad about the tariffs only, when it’s the 51st State threat that truly enrages us.
Whenever Trump, Bullshit Barbie, etc says “51st state” I feel like this:
[image or embed] — LisaFellarina 🇨🇦🇺🇦Against Fascism📎 (@lisafellaantifa.bsky.social) March 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Update #2 — 5:48 pm ET
Simply Awful Economic Policy
x Political Cartoon. President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act #TDIH in 1930. Intended to protect American producers from foreign competition, the tariffs raised the cost of living for amid the Great Depression. St. Louis Star and Times, June 17, 1930. #history pic.twitter.com/5dZdJXJ7kX — David Klein (@DavidKleinKS) June 17, 2023
The War Was Lost Before It Even Started
Update #1 — 5:40 pm ET
Appetizing?
Judging Someone by the Company They Keep
Yogi Berra: "It's Like Déjà Vu All Over Again"
Enacted in 1930, the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs were among the worst Ideas in American political history. The law increased import duties designed to “protect” American farmers and businesses, deepened the Great Recession, increased economic misery, led to economic retaliation, turned allies against the United States, and in November 1932, resulted in the defeat of the incumbent Republican Administration.
Out of this economic meltdown and the ashes of World War II would emerge a new world order based on new cooperative, rules-based institutions. We still live in the world created by Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and their allies.
It is the one Donald Trump is trying to demolish.
x More cartoons! (from Smoot-Hawley, not McKinley) pic.twitter.com/dGSyMfFkia — Douglas Irwin (@D_A_Irwin) October 10, 2024 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, U.S. legislation (June 17, 1930) that raised import duties to protect American businesses and farmers, adding considerable strain to the international economic climate of the Great Depression. The act takes its name from its chief sponsors, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Representative Willis Hawley of Oregon, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Link As the economists predicted, the high tariff proved to be a disaster. Even before its enactment, U.S. trading partners began retaliating by raising their tariff rates, which froze international trade. The tariff fight solidified Hoover’s ties with Republican regulars, but it shredded his standing among his party’s progressives. Most of the progressive Republican senators who had campaigned for Hoover in 1928 wound up endorsing Franklin D. Roosevelt for president in the next election. Nor did the tariff sit well with the voters. In 1932 they turned the majority in both houses over to the Democrats, by large margins. The voters also made clear their disdain for the Smoot-Hawley tariff by booting both Reed Smoot and Willis Hawley out of office that year. Link
Nothing Good Will Come Out of Imposing Tariffs
x Gotta reach into my bag of political cartoons for this one pic.twitter.com/hh0vxZGuEe — Douglas Irwin (@D_A_Irwin) October 5, 2024
The Public Turned Against Herbert Hoover, Which Led to His Defeat in 1932
x Political Cartoon. President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act #TDIH in 1930, During the deepening global Great Depression, the tariff measure contributed to rising public discontent with the Hoover administration. Richmond Times Dispatch, June 17, 1930. #history pic.twitter.com/KYoJSVg1yO — David Klein (@DavidKleinKS) June 18, 2022
You Asked for It
Buffoon
“Liberation Day”
Trouble Ahead
Liberation from What?
x Bill Bramhall, The New York Daily News
https://t.co/9n144dSrDk — Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) April 2, 2025
Positively Un-American
x Daily🧵of cartoons: when you get to the end, click on Continue Thread. If you save a cartoon, keep caption w/ artist's name & handle. Previous 🧵s under Feeds tab of my profile. Garth German @garthtoons.bsky.social
[image or embed] — Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏🥄🇺🇦 (@fiona-webster22.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Who Are the Terrorists?
Who Elected Him King of the Americas?
Trump’s Gestapo
The Esteemed Supreme Court of the United States
The Men of Their Dreams
The New Nationalism
x
Right
x Feeling the pain… pic.twitter.com/ONvlG3HDaZ — Adam Zyglis (@adamzyglis) March 28, 2025
Which One is Major Kong from Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb?
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