[Coach]

There's no hard and fast timeline for economic policies to take effect. Especially with crazy externalities like a global pandemic and large-scale war. Anyone giving anytime line more specific than "anywhere from 5-10 years" is lying to your face. This is why blaming anything (good or bad) on a President within a 4 year term limit is pretty dubious unless it's real hardline and direct target policy. 2 years or less IMO, is way too short.


Tariffs are probably one of the fastest acting policies and the immediate cost of that will be felt pretty quickly (ie prices will rise almost immediately), but the actual intended impacts of tightening manufacturing and bringing those jobs back to America after short term pain etc.. is something that's a decade+ in the making. This is why a system like China is able to steer itself so directly because there's not constant infighting for votes and their people have no say in a decades long experiment to squeeze them even tighter than before into being a labour force that is on the same market as the it's outside competitors instead of the people squeezing their worth out of a world-wide corporate conglomerate. This is also why it won't work in America because people will get sick of being poor and change their government before it takes full hold. This is also why the Republican party wants way more control over these elements, including the vote, because they know they will face political upheaval before any of their policies work. And by "work" I mean consolidate everything into a Russian-style oligarchy. Not "work" to make the American people's lives better.

This is also why leans towards things like public healthcare and infrastructure upgrades and overall policy reform never happen because the populace doesn't care about things that are won't be working for them until 10 or 20+ years from now.

IMO a single 8 or 10-year term limit with more functions to vacate the office (like votes of no confidence etc) would probably be a better way to go.