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Cool, so implement them legally, through Congress. Where they have input from actual economic experts that at least have a minimum understanding of the economy. Not just because someone hurt Trump's feefees and he reacts like the petulant child he is.
All the current tariffs will do is kill the actual US-based businesses they're supposedly supposed to help. Because foreign businesses can just stop selling in the US market and focus elsewhere, the US businesses don't have that option and instead just have to pay upwards of 140% MORE, in many cases more spent on tariffs than their entire product would sell for. Sudden changes like that just kill businesses.
US consumers don't have an extra 150% increase in their paychecks to go along with the price increases from the tariffs. I'd love to more than double my current pay. If that happened, I'd happily pay the increased tariff pricing.
Despite what neoclassical economists will have you believe, many economists do believe Trumps tariffs had solid grounds. The cutting edge of economic thinking is Modern Monetary Policy. And most of the experts I have heard from that school of thought agreed with the tariffs at some level. They mostly disagree with the implementation but they agree that the principles behind them are sound.
Just know that you cannot in one breath criticize billionaires like Musk and Bezos while defending the global neoliberal order in the other. They are one and the same thing.
Yes there will be pain, but that pain will come for us sooner or later and I think it better come sooner rather than later when we are in a worst position to recover from it. You can let a leg fester with gangrene or you can cut it off and save the rest of the body.
Can you show me one of these experts agreeing with Trump's tariffs?
It’s been mostly on podcasts, mainly 1Dime radio which has been having MMT people for a while and I highly recommend. But I believe this blog post by Bill Mitchell, who is one of the main forces behind Modern Monetary Theory enters into the rationale of why he would think the tariffs have a solid foundation:
https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=34677