Tariffs welcomed in the Trump industrial side in Ohio

At a quick driving around the small town of Ohio in Delta, you can notice almost as many Trump flags as the banners of American stars and stripes.

And at the gas station near Ohio Turnpik, pumps carry relics from the last administration, with the slogans hammering Trump's predecessor: “Who votes for Biden, owes me money for gas!”

This is the country of Trump-Rebelski ticket easily won here in the November presidential election with a margin of almost two to one. And while the markets are in turmoil after the opening of Trump's expansive global tariffs this week, many people in Delta and hundreds of medium -sized Western cities are still supporting the president's plans.

These plans, to impose tariffs between 10% and 50% on almost every country, have increased global trade and have led to warnings that prices may soon rise to US consumers. In the meantime, Trump has said this move will cope with unfair trade imbalances, increase the US industry and increase revenue.

For some in Delta, the president's argument for justice resonates.

“I don't want people in other countries to suffer, I really don't do it,” says Mary Miller, manager of Delta Candy Emporium, who sits in the middle of the village's main street. “But we have to have a uniform field.”

Miller, a three -time Trump voter, believes that other countries have not played fairly in trade. And like many here, she prefers to buy goods made by Americans.

As she looks at her multicolored confectionery stocks, many of them are made in the US and weigh how they can be influenced by fresh import taxes, she recalls how many decades she has heard that one of her favorite brands is moving her factories abroad. Since then, she has not bought another pair of Levi jeans.

Miller is enchanted by the opportunity to increase prices, which many economists say these new tariffs will bring.

“Sometimes you have to walk through a fire to get to the other side,” she said.

“If the tariffs return the companies and business of hardworking American people like those who live here, then it's worth it.”

These moods are common in Delta, a village of about 3,300 people less than 100 miles (160 km) south of Detroit, even when other cities in the Midwest take care of sharp shocks.

The automotive industry, with its sophisticated global supply chains, seems particularly vulnerable to the impact of major new tariffs, with companies in Michigan in the north and Indiana in the west already announcing factory stops and shortening workplaces.

But on the outskirts of Delta there are a group of steel companies that have been here since the 1990s and which may be better placed in a new era of American protectionism.

One of these businesses, North Star Bluescope, has called on Trump to expand steel and aluminum rates.

At the same time, however, he requested the release of raw materials, such as metal.

North Star Bluescope did not respond to interview requests, but in the back room at a nearby Barn restaurant, several local steel workers, who had just finished night shift, drank beers together early Friday morning.

The workers who wanted not to be baptized were laughed at all when they asked him about the new new tariffs that were announced by Trump in the White House on Wednesday.

It was a pretty clear indication that this economic news was unlikely to ruin their weekend.

Outside the restaurant, some locals of Delta have considered the possible hills of these imports on imports.

“No one is frantic. We will not lose any dream because of this,” says Jean Burkerder, who has had a career in the agricultural industry in decades.

Although he holds some shares, Mr Burkholder said they were long-term investments and he was not obsessed with sharp drops in the two days after the president's announcement.

“If you have a spare money, it may be the right time to buy some shares while they are cheap,” he said.

A few cabins until she ends the breakfast with her son Rob, Louise Gilson said – quietly – that she doesn't really trust the president.

But Gilson, along with many people here, said he wanted to see actions. She agreed with all her heart when another dinner commented, “Trump may be wrong, but at least he tries.”

“Other people would not make a squat,” she said, citing the Democratic Party.

The berries agreed that large local industrial employers were generally good neighbors contributing to the local economy, charity organizations and the broader community, even when they saw some less desired effects of industrial development and were worried about the uneven sharing of the economic pie.

And since they told Delta's story, they described a gradual erosion in the quality of life that they said made many people wishing to throw the dice, even when economists say Trump's tariff plan comes with clear risks.

“It was a good small town to grow in,” Rob Gilson recalled. But he said that it seems less safe and friendly now than when he grew up in the 60s and 70s.

“It seems that America's heart is gone,” he said.

Delta, Louise Gilson added, “is a place where 25% or 30% of people are fighting their demons.”

And although these problems do not have much to do with tariffs, the challenges that people like Delta are facing, they can somehow explain why many are willing to give President Trump the benefit of doubt, even when markets immerse themselves on Faraway Wall Street.