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Episodes · 12 months
15
Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Feb 2026
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 0 of 3,584, 0 of 3,862, 4 of 4,115, 10 of 4,226, 0 of 4,731, 1 of 4,438, 0 of 4,230, 0 of 4,319, 0 of 4,515, 0 of 4,419, 0 of 4,624, 0 of 4,594.
All time
47
+33 via 14 narrower
On record
52
took a position
Where they standLast discussed
7mo ago
Apr 14, 2026
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 2Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp34 people
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- Utilize tariffs for leverage17 people · 50%
- Anticipate negative economic outcomes17 people · 50%
Utilize tariffs for leverage
Tariffs are a strategic and necessary negotiation tool to correct trade imbalances and protect domestic manufacturing interests.
17 people · 14 episodes
Threatening a 100% tariff on Canada is a necessary leverage tactic to prevent Canada from becoming a trade bypass for Chinese goods into the U.S.
“If Governor Carney, [laughter] >> got a lovely guy >> of the 51st state, Canada, thinks he is going to make Canada a drop off port for China to send goods and products into the US. He is sorely mistaken. China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses”
PBD Podcast · Jan 2026 · 6 episodes · 6.0M views on this topic
Tariffs can function as a tool to realign global trade, protect domestic industries, and force foreign nations to agree to more proportional and equitable trade deals.
“prong number one is it starts to realign the world order. But prong number two is that it allows us to start taking back control of a lot of these markets so that we do the hard work so that we can rely on ourselves.”
Flagrant · Apr 2025 · 7 episodes · 4.2M views on this topic
Donald J. TrumpUnrated
Tariffs are a necessary tool to ensure foreign countries open their markets to American businesses and pay for the privilege of trading with the United States.
“But the opening up of a country is very important to us. We have numerous countries that uh have opened their doors. Uh just made some incredible uh transactions, but we're going to have a very very simple tariff for some of the countries have so many countries you can't negotiate deals with everyon”
The All-In Podcast · Jul 2025 · 1 episode · 3.6M views on this topicAnticipate negative economic outcomes
Broad or improperly applied tariffs function as inflationary taxes that harm consumers, stifle growth, and cause economic instability.
17 people · 16 episodes
Implementing a flat tariff on all imported goods would likely lead to a recession and negative economic consequences.
“But then on the other side, you have the Trump administration asking the court to dismiss those requests on multiple grounds. arguing that Trump's primacy in foreign affairs outweighs the interests of Agrego Garcia and his family.”
Philip DeFranco · Apr 2025 · 2 episodes · 2.1M views on this topic
She maintains that the economic uncertainty and inflation caused by the tariffs have stagnated economic growth in the United States.
“the uncertainty created by those tariffs and by the inflation created by those tariffs have meant that economic growth in the United States has stagnated in the year 2025 and going into 2026.”
Heather Cox Richardson · Feb 2026 · 5 episodes · 2.1M views on this topic
Trump's broad, non-strategic use of tariffs is a hatchet approach that will hurt the economy and serves as a distraction from proposed tax cuts for the wealthy.
“if he did it with a scalpel it might work but he's doing it with a hatchet or perhaps with elon's chainsaw and that's the problem here”
Piers Morgan Uncensored · Apr 2025 · 2 episodes · 1.8M views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
In the transcripts
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Over time
Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Feb 2025