> One of the explicit goals of the program is to keep the US competitive Competition doesn't matter to a xenophobe. That's what the tariffs are for. You admit

> One of the explicit goals of the program is to keep the US competitive Competition doesn't matter to a xenophobe. That's what the tariffs are for. You admit that you can't compete, so you make it too expensive for people to buy the foreign things, forcing them to buy your (inferior/expensive) things, with the upside-down belief that that will make your economy strong. When actually the now-captive market is an incentive to make things worse and more expensive. You'd think the people who "beat communism with choice and competition" would get that.