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The polling is clear: Democratic voters hate tariffs. In a late March YouGov poll for CBS News, 88 percent of Democratic respondents said they oppose new tariffs on imported goods. That poll was taken before President Trump announced huge new tariffs on April 2 that caused the S&P 500 to dive 10 percent in two days and the American public to get a crash course in trade economics. After a week of financial market carnage, the president relented partly — he’s still proceeding with a 125 percent tariff on China and 10 percent on most of the rest of the world. In response, the markets partly recovered.
It’s a pattern we’ve seen for the last two months, including when the president surprised markets in early March with his apparent intent to move forward with tariffs on Canada and Mexico: Mr. Trump announces tariffs, and the market tanks; he announces some kind of tariff reprieve, and the market bounces back, but only part of the way. At the market close on Wednesday, the S&P 500 was still down over 10 percent from its peak on Feb. 19.