“The Trump critics don’t understand or pretend not to understand that what they describe as a sloppy, failed roll out was actually a deliberate feature.”
The is like saying that the Yankee rout at First Bull Run was a strategic ploy aimed at giving the Rebs a false sense of security.
The battleplan should have been to take on China alone. The hodgepodge of global skirmishes detracted from and diluted the impact of a focused initiative. India and the EU don’t present existential threats. China does.
And putting on 100+% tariffs was just plain silly. We as a country aren’t in a position to build thousands of factories overnight to replace Chinese-made goods, which is the point that Wal-Mart, Target, and Home Depot CEOs made to the President yesterday.
A policy of moderately higher tariffs COMBINED with tax incentives for new, job-producing factories in the US would best serve our economic independence.
Thank God Trump is President and not you.