[Toddsterpatriot]

I think he realized the poster he was defending was wrong and why defend a guy who ran away.

He finally saw that your refutation of the original poster's error was in fact correct and he didn't want to admit it.

[1rudeboy]

Comment #196 threw me. I think he chose a fragment of my sentence and decided to argue against it, to the exclusion of all else.

That's how I'm reading it, at least. I can't even think of a word to describe the error. It's as if I wrote that "home run output increased, coinciding with higher pitching velocities," and he thought that I was implying that pitchers are throwing the ball more slowly, causing more home runs.

[1rudeboy]

Smoot-Hawley enacted: 1930
Smoot-Hawley repealed: 1934

I still don't see the point of narrowing the focus from long-term to short-term, though. No one is arguing that Smoot-Hawley caused the Great Depression.

Source.