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Okay, so, being incredibly generous here, I sort of get their point, but why not slowly ramp tariffs up to allow domestic production to catch up? Because fuck you, that's why.
And, as always, none of any of the false promises of prosperity excuse any of the hate Trump spreads.
Instead, the xenophobic hate from an economic idiot is believable enough to start a worldwide depression over trying to get batteries for Elon while making pop-up-factories with AI staff I guess?
Or of course the alternative wartime “economy”.
Genuine answer is likely that it's not intended to be permanent. It's designed to make him look good when ultimately removed and secure some support for conservative talking points around stopping drugs and immigration across the borders.
It also distracts from the major damage they're doing internally to the government via OPM which is much more difficult to reverse.
Yeah, with the Canada and Mexico ones already being cancelled that tracks. Supposedly he's making an announcement regarding tariffs at 1 PM Eastern today (in 20 minutes) so who knows.
It is performative and done from a place of ignorance.