How does that matter if the purpose is to show the effect of recent, chaotic, ill-conceived policies of the current administration?

"recent, chaotic, ill-conceived policies of the current administration"

So it's not political?

Recent: indisuputable matter of fact.

Chaotic: one might disagree on the magnitude of flip-flopping that can be labelled "chaotic", but the unpredictable on-again, off-again nature of the policies is well-described by "chaotic" I think.

Ill-conceived: if you can find me one serious economist who agrees with the Trump tariff policy (i.e. agrees on the goal, the means and the ends, and the match between them), I'll consider retracting this. Otherwise, yep, ill-conceived describes imposing tariffs without any apparent understanding of how they work or their likely effects.

Also, did I say it's not political at any point?

> Also, did I say it's not political at any point?

Then we agree!