[darawk]

He's been articulating this policy for his entire campaign. Half the country voted for him. If you are saying that the details of its implementation are insane, then are you suggesting that Trump actually personally developed and scrutinized those details? Because I don't think any coherent theory of Trump would comport with that.

I do think a lot of the details are bad. But Trump is not exactly a details guy. And while I think they could have been better (by a lot, fairly easily), I do think they are an accurate, if crude, representation of the policy vision Trump has been consistently articulating for decades (he's been talking about tariffs and trade deficits like this since the 90s).

[jonathanstrange]

I do believe that half of the US voters do not understand the economic impacts and workings of imposing indiscriminate, massive tariffs on trade partners. The evidence that the majority of Trump's voters have no clue what they've been voting for is quite overwhelming. I would even call it crazy to believe the opposite, to be honest.

[poincaredisk]

The majority of voters have no clue on what they've been voting. In particular it's also true for Trump's voters.