The tariffs were a backdoor way of passing a nationwide regressive sales tax without the pesky work of passing a law by legitimate democratic process.

Good grief.

1. That's transparently NOT what the white house said the tariffs were for.

2. There has been NO significant change (via negotiation or not) in non-tariff trade policy under this administration. Essentially all those "announcements" of "deals" were, were just the acts of rolling back the tariffs themselves. No one caved. We didn't get any advantage.

It's just absolutely amazing to me the degree of epistemological isolation the right has created for it in the modern US.