[tfandango]

Yea, it's really the opposite of the stated desired effect, small businesses will go under or not even start, while Target and Walmart afforded to pre-stock their warehouses to ride the wave as best they can. Amazon already informed suppliers they "won't be accepting price increases". So we will all just be working for the big box stores and nobody will be living the American Dream of starting their own company.

And, since this is all really just chaos without a plan, what happens when replacement suppliers don't spring up all over the USA?

[rsynnott]

You kind of saw this with Brexit as well; it was marketed by its proponents as somehow helping small businesses, but of course in the end it hurt or killed them; its impacts on the likes of Amazon, while not nothing, were more muted.

(Brexit, mind you, was on most dimensions not as a severe as the Trump tariffs; it's really going to be very ugly a few months down the line if they're maintained.)