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If I recall my history right, the 1929 stock market collapse precipitated the Great Depression, and the tariffs were a (misguided) attempt at trying to set the economy straight.
Dont let facts get in the way of a cheeky social media post.
Did it make it better or worse?
In case you are seriously asking this is from Wikipedia.
Soooo much much worse.
I figured as such but since he was saying OP was wrong, I thought it worth asking.
The causality there is misleading. We really don’t need any sort of misleading to criticize the cheeto. There’s plenty of legitimate points to make.
Ferris bueller kinda called this one.
The bueller... bueller... bueller bit is preceded by ben stein explaining the Hadley snoot tariffs to a visibly bored and distracted classroom.
From Smoot-Hawley to Bueller-Trumpy.