I don’t like tariffs and (IMHO) neither does Trump. You are right - he is using them as a weapon because he is dealing with countries that love them. I support that. And I expect Trump to win. He won’t end the trade gap but he close it.
But Tucker went beyond tariffs and Trump’s use of them. He leaned very strongly in favor of government intervention in areas of commerce that he (and probably all of us) see as unfair.
That sounds good. Democrats have been running on that sort of solution for a hundreds years or more. But it rarely turns out well. The urge to profit on rules made by Congress is just too powerful a force. More laws. More restrictions. More corruption. Less commerce.
There are some areas where I do believe government intervention is warranted, for cases of National Security.
Anything that our military relies on, should be under our control, crucial supplies. I think we agree that outsourcing steel production to Japan in the 20s and 30s, probably wouldn’t have been the best of ideas.
Energy is another one, look what our dependence on Arab oil has done over the years.
Can you point out in the US Constitution the right to tariff free trade with other nations? Thanks.