Young Kim and Ken Calvert should stop excusing Trump’s import taxes

President Donald Trump has unilaterally imposed hundreds of billions of dollars in import taxes on American businesses and consumers. The official reasons he’s given for this have mostly clustered around implausible arguments that trade deficits are a national emergency (as opposed to a sign Americans are so much richer than the rest of the world we can buy more than others can buy from us).
Emblematic of how thoughtfully his tariffs have been imposed is the case of Switzerland. The Trump