Their unemployment rate was ~4% when Dotard took office. So how exactly are they supposed to displace imports with domestic production? (More immigrants!! )
The answer, maybe, is that they don’t want to. By curtailing trade, you make everyone but the oligarchs worse off - surviving in an autarchic semi-feudal state. An age of scarcity and high costs for a basic life.
There ya go, my dystopian nightmare.
Or it’s just the Age of Imbeciles and he can’t answer the question coz they’re just flying by the seat of their shit stained pants.
it’s a major problem that they can repeatedly tell people they are doing the exact opposite of what they’re actually doing over and over and over and 40% of the country doesn’t believe it’s happening.
We’re fighting against anti-semitism (while embracing Nazi saluting holocaust deniers)
We support farmers (while gutting agricultural research funding)
We’re for Law and Order (while cozying up to fraudsters and sexual predators)
We’re tough on fentanyl (while pardoning fentanyl dealers)