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Trump's tariffs keep reminding me of two other events when rulers compensated for field-relevant incompetence through increased authoritarianism instead of through decentralization so that those with the relevant competence, those doing the actual things such as farmers, factory workers, etc could with their deep knowledge decide how they should do things.
It reminds me of the "Great Leap Forward" which leaped the people into the "Great Chinese Famine" and it reminds me of the first five-year plan of the "Soviet" Union imposed by Stalin resulting in the Soviet famine which included the Holodomor and similar devastation elsewhere.