Salient point:
And the President can offer them better individual deals. You might call it a “tariff scalpel” strategy— slicing not just into trade surpluses, but also slicing apart alliances.
This is how you dismantle globalism; like cops with criminals, Homer breaks first gets a deal, the hard-bitten get bit. Or more softly, enlightened self-interest.
I hate autocorrect. “Whomever” not “Homer.”