If I say to you 'I want a pony in my flat, but I don't believe that I will have to clean up its shit, spend anything on feeding it or in any way change my lifestyle to accommodate it', which is essentially what the voters Downing Street obsesses over say about immigration, should you get me a pony?

you can go back over decades and tariffs are the one policy issue that Trump has consistent opinions about, based on a coherent (stupid, but coherent) theory that a nation's balance of trade is its balance sheet and it is strong when the balance is positive

What people fail to understand about Trump is that all his Belief is fully committed to tariffs. They think that because normal people believe many things and Trump doesn’t believe in anything else, he does not believe in tariffs. This is wrong. Popes and imams have less faith than him.

With the benefit of hindsight, the answer to this would clearly seem to be no...