[BenFranklin100]

Just about any undergraduate textbook will discuss tariffs and why they are nearly universal regarded as poor policy. See Samuelson for instance. The online discourse is poor because the vast majority of people, even those who are educated, have never cracked open a 1st year Econ textbook.

[dkjaudyeqooe]

I think most people are not thinking on purpose, and just accepting the dogma of one side or the other.

[nonethewiser]

>Just about any undergraduate textbook will discuss tariffs and why they are nearly universal regarded as poor policy.

I think its poor because people see tariffs not immediately derided and they swoop in to denigrate them. Please re-read my entire comment.