Liberation Day has come and gone. If Trump’s War on Foreign Goods (WOFG) is genius, we’ll take idiocy. It’s a stitched-together concatenation based on meretricious metrics, a Son of Smoot-Hawley that will ensure Trump a place in the presidential pantheon right next to Herbert Hoover. Like Hoover, Trump has a business background; like Hoover he never shuts up, and like Hoover he will preside over a disastrous tariff regime.

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The best that can be said of the tariffs is that they will hasten what was going to happen anyway. Trump wants to FA, he will FO. The WOFG will be his biggest mistake since Warp Speed, although both may be eclipsed by nuclear war with Iran. If he makes it to the end of his second term, nobody will be talking about a third, and his visage won’t be the fifth face carved into Mount Rushmore.