The president-elect has repeatedly promised tariffs as if to protect manufacturers – and workers. But the targets are revealing.
In a way, tariffs, sanctions and bans all boil down to one word: no. We’ve just had a month of “no”. No-vember, you could even say.
The tariffs Trump has announced since winning have been focused on curbing the importation of illegal drugs and stopping immigrants entering the US without permission.posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, that his tariffs “will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!”
In this case, a tariff would be more beneficial. Instead of swearing off men entirely, heterosexual women could impose an extraon sex, dating, marriage and children by only engaging in those activities with men who treat women well and respect their physical autonomy. There are no rules that tariffs have to be levied in dollars and cents.You could say that, before social norms changed, the tariff levied on sex used to be marriage; selecting for character was called being choosy.
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