Of course US citizens want a president that looks out for US interests. To think otherwise is laughable and naive. I want the president to fight for us!
The idea is that it's temporary pain for long-term gain.
Whether that's actually the case is debatable, but people who support those policies genuinely believe so. So you can call them misguided, but not irrational or inconsistent.
> The idea is that it's temporary pain for long-term gain.
No, it's not. There's absolutely no sense in which there is a "long-term gain" from imposing a tax on US consumers because the government decided they were buying the wrong products. If you have an actual argument to make in favor of these taxes, please make it. You're just parroting a talking point and providing no justification for something that doesn't make any sense.
I'm not making that argument. I'm telling you how people who do make that argument think.
Like I said, you can call them ignorant on the basis that there's no actual long-term gain. But they believe there is, and that is why they support this policy, not because they really like shooting themselves in the foot so much.
