He seems intelligent enough to understand the arguments for...

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He seems intelligent enough to understand the arguments for unilateral free trade. Yet he promotes tariffs. I suspect that he knows that many voters are economically illiterate, so he caters to their ignorance and prejudices to get elected, even though he knows that tariffs are terrible.