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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
The thing is, there will probably be a bit of lag time getting some of these policies in place (there's no ideological momentum in favour of tariffs for example and a lot of the people in charge of implementing them will probably approach that task with more nuance than Trump would), and once they're in place in whatever form, there will be another lag before the bill comes due and the bad impacts are really felt... it should be perfectly timed for the next guy to get tagged as being responsible.
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Yeah, if he even follows through with it, I guess. Seems just as likely he threatens tariffs, gets paid off in one way or another by China, and slaps a tariff on something completely irrelevant from like Venezuela instead. It's not like Trump has a real ideological preference for protectionism. Just flows nicely with his various other xenophobic messages.
But if they do actually craft some serious tariffs with teeth - yeah, that'll hurt years later.