Data source: GWI Zeitgeist (full disclosure, I work for GWI, I’m sharing this in a personal capacity)
My company has done surveys each month for the last 5 years on various topical and pressing issues. The week before Liberation Day, we’d done a special survey on tariffs, and I noticed that they were massively unpopular – much more so than I was expecting.
So I went back through all the surveys in our archive, focusing on questions that asked about support and opposition on given things. Turns out tariffs are probably **the** least popular concept we’ve ever asked Americans about.
The fact they’re less popular than bringing lockdown measures back ~2 years into the Covid pandemic is something I find personally wild.
Amazing how different these opinion polls are to the direction of actual government policy.
People support ad supported tiers of TV streaming services more than universal basic income?
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Interesting, but at the same time material for r/NoShitSherlock
And as OP says in another comment, the tariffs being less popular than bringing back Covid restrictions at the end of the pandemic should give a heads-up to the government.
Top five basically Harris positions and plans. But people were like: nahh, I like to have an absolute shit show instead.
![[OC] Tariffs are one of the least popular ideas that have been surveyed in recent years](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/a2iqfnp41zte1-1240x1024.png)
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Data source: GWI Zeitgeist (full disclosure, I work for GWI, I’m sharing this in a personal capacity)
My company has done surveys each month for the last 5 years on various topical and pressing issues. The week before Liberation Day, we’d done a special survey on tariffs, and I noticed that they were massively unpopular – much more so than I was expecting.
So I went back through all the surveys in our archive, focusing on questions that asked about support and opposition on given things. Turns out tariffs are probably **the** least popular concept we’ve ever asked Americans about.
The fact they’re less popular than bringing lockdown measures back ~2 years into the Covid pandemic is something I find personally wild.
Amazing how different these opinion polls are to the direction of actual government policy.
People support ad supported tiers of TV streaming services more than universal basic income?
[ Removed by Reddit ]
Interesting, but at the same time material for r/NoShitSherlock
And as OP says in another comment, the tariffs being less popular than bringing back Covid restrictions at the end of the pandemic should give a heads-up to the government.
Top five basically Harris positions and plans. But people were like: nahh, I like to have an absolute shit show instead.
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