Shane Harris: "Elites Hate Trump's Tariffs Because They Work"

I mean, honestly, the more I think and read about it, the less I understand about why this tariff business is so terrible. I'm not an economist, and I'm not stupid enough to substitute my less-than-half-assed understanding of this for the--apparent, anyway--consensus of, like, everybody else...

   I'm just saying that, if I were forced to decide on this question on the information I currently have and without knowing that basically everybody else including all the economists think it's a disaster...I'd probably opt for tariffs--at least reciprocal ones.

   It sure seems that the consensus is that that's dumb--I'm not denying that. And I'm not denything that it's dumb. I'm just saying that I apparently don't understand enough to see why the dumb decision is dumb.