As Trump is gonna put his insane tariffs in place, what do you guys think is the goal here? Because I fear that he is playing 4D chess but making it look like he is playing checkers, and if his tariffs are out into place it’ll undoubtedly anger and radicalise lots of Americans especially, and just cause a general shitshow for approval ratings and threaten the domestic safety of capital. Thoughts?
I do not know for certain, but I can make inference from the context, results of Trump’s policies, and the fact that Trump in real life is less evil than Trump in fake news.
From the parochialism and localism, one possible goal is to create more economic independence that sustains American economy. The US is one of the free riding European diaspora that use the Bretton Woods instiutions like WB and IMF to depend that developing countries remove the protectionism that sustain economic development while enabling rich white countries to hypocritcally impose protectionism for ‘security purpose’, but engaging in more protectionism could create more local jobs and further strengthens the local industries that the global south specialized in.
A second possible goal is to subdue Canada and Mexico through economic sanctions until their agreed to united into one country so that the US could compete with Chinese superpower. This is especially important in an era where the US is losing puppet governments and victims of debt trapping from China’s intervention into international development.
A third possible goal is to destroy the Neo-Liberal order and create a new conservative order that privileges old values of the European diaspora.
Could you elaborate on your third point?