I mean not really the white house released the math, you can verify each of the rates proposed and realize that yeah it's not reciprocal tariffs, it's literally making a tariff based on trade deficits and even where there are trade surpluses, i.e we sell more than we buy, he was still trying to put tariffs on those countries. It's brain dead and does nothing but kill trade relationships and harm the economy. We do not have all the raw materials needed to produce everything in the US. Nor do we even have the capacity to manufacture everything in the US without the price of goods skyrocketing (not even talking about the time it would take to build up manufacturing facilities which just further deflates this whole 'plan') or the salaries of those workers falling so far below minimum wage the wealth gap would skyrocket past its already incomprehensible levels. There is one side using completely bad faith arguments and narratives with a group of people with so much cognitive dissonance that you could tell them trump said eating shit will make the economy better and they would eat it up in a heartbeat. Then you have another side just pointing out how completely brain dead these takes are but apparently there must be nuance and a global agenda to hide how eating shit makes the economy better. There is no "can't see what's going on" its just you willingly putting your head in the sand so you don't have to realize how fucking stupid is to even have to argue about this.

EVERYONE except you knows what