that assumes a massive amount of economic understanding and intelligence on the part of the President that has simply been completely unobserved for his entire career.
occam's razor provides much better explanations here. He's an idiot obsessed with dominance games and thinks a tariff on a country means that country pays a tax to the US. He thinks trade deficits are bad, just like if I buy a toaster from Target, now I have a "trade deficit" with Target and I need to find something they'll buy from me.
He's a total dangerous moron and these attempts to come up with 11-dimensional chess rationalizations are misguided.
occam's razor provides much better explanations here. He's an idiot obsessed with dominance games and thinks a tariff on a country means that country pays a tax to the US. He thinks trade deficits are bad, just like if I buy a toaster from Target, now I have a "trade deficit" with Target and I need to find something they'll buy from me.
He's a total dangerous moron and these attempts to come up with 11-dimensional chess rationalizations are misguided.