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This week, Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs that the Associated Press called “a historic tax hike that could push the global order to a breaking point,” and what I want to know is this: Why are we still wondering what Trump voters want? He promised. He delivered. What’s the mystery? I ask, because our discourse seems to be invested in the idea that his supporters don’t really want this, and I don’t just mean his hardcore supporters. We tell ourselves that the last election was about inflation and the high cost of living, like the price of eggs, and...

After nearly a month of the president ruling by force rather than persuasion, you can still find pundits who believe that the Democrats, if they are going to save the republic, must be more than anti-Trump. They have to be for something, not just against it. It’s like these pundits have not been reading, or reading carefully enough, stories about Trump voters and what they say they believe. If these pundits did read such stories with clear scrutiny, rather than slack-jawed benefit-of-the-doubt, they might ask themselves, as I have: How do you reason with people who are politically insane? Consider...