Tariffs and inflation really weren’t connected anyways . People making the claim weren’t simply mistaken but actually lying since they just hate tariffs and wanted to scare people
That’s pretty much my entire point.
They have a full time job keeping all those spinning plates in the air. One of them is preventing the great unwashed to figure out that inflation is a government caused phenomenon. They want people to think it just sort of falls out of the sky, and nobody knows what causes it. They’ll even try to tell you a “little bit” of monetary inflation is a good thing (losing half your savings and investments over 20 years is “good for the economy”!). Such are the experts going back to Keynes, pseudo-intellectual apologists trotted out to explain how everything will be fine while they steal everything.
Tariffs are a tax and they take money out of the system. Therefore they’re principally deflationary. Some prices for items or services may go up, but they’ll be offset by other prices going down.