Redwingfan9
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Tariffs are never a short term solution. While they're being sold as a such, the reality is that this argument is dependent upon China and other foreign powers playing ball, which they haven't done across the board.Okay so far.
This requires a lot more explaining IMO. Everyone who is sympathetic to the Trump-era tariffs is supportive--even Trump himself--of the tariffs only as temporary leverage en route to getting China, and perhaps others, to bring their own policies into line with free trade, the policy that we Americans would want. It's not as though protectionism is the ideal or even the point of it.
To criticize Tucker Carlson on this development strikes me as similar to dunning someone for supporting our country's response to Pearl Harbor. That was not because of a love of war but was the assumption, on a temporary basis, of a kind of action that we would much rather not have had to do.
What you're describing about Carlson is his patriotism, and I agree that there are a lot of conservatives (and more libertarians) who are great at social theory, but are not especially interested in our nation in particular.
Carlson is specifically against free trade and routinely argues against it. He doesn't really want a new trade policy with China or the EU, he wants a nationalistic government controlled econony that focuses on American manufacturing selling to Americans. He is wholly uninterested in free international trade, his monologues of the past 10 years make this abundantly clear. Tariffs are no temporary solution for Carlson, who wraps up his big government love in a flag.
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