Donald Trump is employing the tariff weapon for political, not economic, purposes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : They are not, unlike the Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, a broad and general imposition of import duties, but instead specifically aimed at Canada and Mexico.
51% : "Every election in Canada has a foreign component," said Patrice Dutil, a professor of politics and public administration at Toronto Metropolitan University.
44% : "Trump is a man of few moves, and this is one of them," wrote Daniel Drezner, of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, in the journal Foreign Policy last month.
42% : "Trump doesn't operate in a way that takes into consideration the long game.

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