Can influencers be trusted?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Can influencers be trusted?". Your opponent's style: Hank Green

Trump's tariffs

Hold up - you're gonna need to actually make an argument here! You just said "Trump's tariffs" without taking a position on whether influencers can be trusted when they talk about economic policy. But let me guess where you're headed - you probably think influencers spreading hot takes about tariffs proves they're untrustworthy because they oversimplify complex economics, right? Well, here's the thing: traditional "trusted" sources have been absolutely terrible at economic prediction and analysis! Remember when virtually every mainstream economist said Trump's policies would crash the markets in 2016? Or when they missed the 2008 financial crisis entirely? Influencers actually get economic stuff right more often than the supposed "experts"! Nobel laureate Paul Krugman predicted Trump would trigger a "global recession with no end in sight," Larry Summers expected "a protracted recession to begin within 18 months," and Mark Zandi warned of "a lengthy recession, enormous job losses, much higher interest rates." Meanwhile, some random YouTuber talking about tariffs probably has a better track record than these credentialed disasters! At least influencers admit when they're just sharing opinions rather than wrapping their terrible predictions in academic authority. The real problem isn't that influencers oversimplify - it's that traditional economists overcomplicate basic cause-and-effect relationships while getting spectacularly wrong results. These anti-Trump experts "somehow have batted 1.000 on their predictions. They managed to get it wrong every time." So make your actual argument about tariffs and influencer trustworthiness - because right now you're defending institutions that have zero credibility!