Just because something is happening for years doesn't mean there cannot be extra incentive to make it worse today. But you just handwaved tariffs away. and did the inflation go up by 0.9% in a month in those years?

Do you not want to appropriate accountability to anyone that isn’t sitting around in a top hat and monocle?

WE are shitty greedy people. Shitty greedy people will use tariffs and become shittier and greedier. So yes, you are right, tariffs will make it worse.

This society lacks civil sense, moral sense, ethical sense, communal sense, common sense, from top hat to bottom bare feet.

This only gets fixed together.