Group Banter Race to a million

Short version for anyone not into economics is that tariffs are a tool in international trade for helping to protect specific key industries, by making import more expensive.

Tariffs that aren't well targeted, are too high, or aren't combined with diplomacy and careful justification just make everything more expensive and start Trade Wars.

Since the world economy now relies entirely on lots of trade with each other and nobody is self-sufficient, Trade Wars result in lots and lots of pain and misery all over the world.
 
Fanatical Cult of voters applaud the Boss for being "tough" and "not backing down" even as they lose their businesses and life savings and he fails to deliver on a single promise, killing the middle class and establishing an Oligarchy of his family and friends.
 
World watches and waits to see when the breaking point will be of the other government institutions standing up and defending the constitution, or failing that, when the whole thing combusts into violent revolution. Historically the two options.
 
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