If Donald Trump follows through on his threats to add a 25 percent tariff on all imports from Canada and Mexico, and 10 percent on Chinese imports, it will devastate the American economy in short order.
Besides worsening relations with our three major trading partners, it will cause massive rises in prices on all kinds of goods, such as:
Clothing
Furniture
Household Appliances
Toys
Food
Automobiles
Travel Goods
Smart Phones
It will worse our relations with our neighbors, and destroy the USMCA trade agreements, promoting distrust with both Canada and Mexico, who share thousands of miles of boundaries, and undermine our relationship with China, our leading rival in world affairs.
It will be destructive of international relations, and of American economic progress, which had advanced under Joe Biden, despite the inflation problem.
If Americans voted against the Democrats on the inflation issue, they will get a rude awakening under Donald Trump, as we will have similar situation as we had in the Great Depression due to Herbert Hoover and the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930, and the Panic of 1893 due to Benjamin Harrison and the McKinley Tariff of 1890.