This is what I don’t get about Trump’s critics when it comes to tariffs. Trump does not want to impose tariffs for the sake of imposing tariffs. This isn’t 1890. He is doing it strategically to force certain behavior. It seems to be working. Trump’s critics blindly fall into the economic theory argument that tariffs are always bad. They are good when they force Mexico to secure the border. They are good when they force Columbia and Venezuela to take back their illegal migrants.
Tariffs as a policy weapon— is it even covered in polisci textbooks?