I think it’s a combination of tariffs being protectionist and that presidential authority to issue them without Congress has expanded with time (though arguably without the legislation to justify that). It plays very well with the American manufacturing renaissance pipe dream he sells.
What is with him and tariffs? Is this a part of his plan to bring us back to 1895 ?
I think it’s a combination of tariffs being protectionist and that presidential authority to issue them without Congress has expanded with time (though arguably without the legislation to justify that). It plays very well with the American manufacturing renaissance pipe dream he sells.
He’s a bully and an idiot, so his only strategy are idiotic bully tactics.
He’s also increasingly stuck in the past. It takes some serious disconnect to ask a crowd in 2024, if they witnessed Charles Lindburgh in 1927.