Tonight, Rachel Maddow reminded us all of a fact I had memory-holed. Those horribly ill-advised tariffs are the brainchild of Economic Advisor Peter Navarro. Navarro was selected by Jared Kushner (in 45's first term) who just went on Amazon and searched the titles of books on Economics until he found a title that he thought "sounded cool."
In his books, Navarro cited economist "Ron Vara" as the main source for his (wacky) ideas. Except Ron Vara doesn't exist. The name is an anagram of "Navarro."
These incredibly destructive tariffs were implemented on the advisement of a person who does not exist, just the ghost of a fool speaking nonsense to a bigger fool.
And we all pay the price, globally.