The comment I replied to has an undertone that the masses don’t know how to evaluate what is in their interests. I can guarantee terms like “failure of democracy” will start being used by democrats if they haven’t been already today. All totalitarianism is horrible and it comes from both right and left sides, however the left is very often the source of it, and the logic to justify that is often much like the comment I was responding too - “for their own good”.

Regarding tariffs this is a complex issue and he has said repeatedly that it’s a negotiation tool. The records reflects that in he expanded US overseas market access with heavy handed negotiations. Most countries are much more protectionist than the US.

Industrial farming with massive soybean exports to China, who can’t even produce 50% of the calories their population needs domestically, is again a very complicated topic.

China is not in good shape and Trump’s first term was a clear inflection point in their trajectory.