A quote often misattributed to Einstein (but was actually Rita Mae Brown) goes, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Lassman continues:

“We are five years into the biggest experiment with tariffs since the Great Depression, and the results are in: The new tariffs raise consumer prices for ordinary Americans by about $1,200 per household every year and benefit only a small number of special interests. Steel and aluminum tariffs, enacted on national security grounds, angered allies. Beijing made not a single substantive reform in response to four rounds of tariffs plus an attempted Phase One agreement.” (Project 2025, Section 4.6: Trade, Kent Lassman, pages 833 and 834.)

It kind of says it all that someone from Project 2025 would admit that Trump’s tariffs were an abject failure.

Full contextual analysis of Section 4.6: Trade here.