The truly crazy thing is, had they had a plan and not got the cart before the horse they may have actually been able to achieve much more of what they wanted without all the negative effects. If they had put in place a plan to ease and expedite investment in new US manufacturing capability, spoke to the fact that tariffs would be a mechanism eventually but they would negotiate with countries first to try and avoid them and line up folks like Apple and others to plan reshoring key industry manufacturing they might have had something. That was clearly too slow and too logical for this clown car cabal- -- if they even could have logically thought their way to it.
Now, if I were a major corporate entity, I might give lip service to the notion that we might onshore more manufacturing, but knowing that Trump has the attention span of a gnat, we would slow walk any real investment or organizational change because any real change will take 4 or 5 years and Trump will be gone and why put any capital at risk when just words will do. Trump of course will declare victory on the thinnest of pretenses and promises and move on and other than the disruption caused by his chaotic approach, nothing will really change.
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