Tariffs make sense if you have local industries to protect. We don't anymore. (Even things assembled in the USA are fabricated elsewhere.) Trump is just used to being the Big Man, the guy everyone HAS to deal with, so he can push them around to get whatever he can squeeze. In a multi-polar world, this is lunacy. But narcissists don't get where they are by thinking about others.
Tariffs make sense if you have local industries to protect. We don't anymore. (Even things assembled in the USA are fabricated elsewhere.) Trump is just used to being the Big Man, the guy everyone HAS to deal with, so he can push them around to get whatever he can squeeze. In a multi-polar world, this is lunacy. But narcissists don't get where they are by thinking about others.
Exactly. Tariffs are actually an excellent way to protect local manufacturing or to encourage certain business practices when done in an intelligent, targeted way. But intelligent and targeted are not was that cone to ind when I think of Trump.
Tariffs make sense if you have local industries to protect. We don't anymore. (Even things assembled in the USA are fabricated elsewhere.) Trump is just used to being the Big Man, the guy everyone HAS to deal with, so he can push them around to get whatever he can squeeze. In a multi-polar world, this is lunacy. But narcissists don't get where they are by thinking about others.
Exactly. Tariffs are actually an excellent way to protect local manufacturing or to encourage certain business practices when done in an intelligent, targeted way. But intelligent and targeted are not was that cone to ind when I think of Trump.