All these posts like "See what Brexit (unintentionally) did!?" This is exactly the point of nationalistic policies. Make foreign trade more expensive and you'r

All these posts like "See what Brexit (unintentionally) did!?" This is exactly the point of nationalistic policies. Make foreign trade more expensive and you're effectively subsidizing your national industries. This reminds me of how the US spent 2 decades moving factories overseas while aiming at becoming a white collar economy. When the factory jobs did finally disappear, US politicians did the "Surprised Picachu" face at the situation they explicitly aimed at creating, and then successfully created. To express this ironic economic situation in millennial: https://i.imgflip.com/6bhb1y.jpg https://i.imgflip.com/6bhb1y.jpg