Oh, so dawn breaks and we’re talking about tariffs on Tuesday.

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Tariffs are the greatest! Either a country which has treated the United States unfairly on Trade negotiates a fair deal, or it gets hit with Tariffs. It’s as simple as that - and everybody’s talking! Remember, we are the “piggy bank” that’s being robbed. All will be Great! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 24, 2018

(Somebody is a moron here. Just sayin’. “All will be Great” sounds like something you’d hear from Gandalf’s brother who works in the stockroom.)

He expanded on their greatness, and promised to bring us more of it, later in the day. Anyway, since the topic of the day is how great tariffs are, we should probably take a look around the country at how great America is made by them. Our first guides are the folks at Bloomberg:

Harley sped up shipments to the European Union to mitigate the impact of higher tariffs that the bloc enacted last month. While that means the levies will cost the company as much as $35 million this year -- a less drastic hit than expected -- the annual impact will still be about $90 million to $100 million, Chief Executive Officer Matt Levatich said during a conference call with analysts. Adjusted profit for the second quarter was $1.52, beating analysts’ average estimate for $1.41. Revenue slipped to $1.53 billion, topping the average projection for $1.42 billion. Harley shares rose as much as 7.2 percent to $44.42 as of 10:25 a.m. in New York. The stock is down about 13 percent this year.

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Of course, one of the first victims of the greatness of tariffs were America’s soybean farmers. The administration* was taking considerable heat over what its trade war was doing to these authentic Americans. So, the administration* has come riding to the rescue. From CNBC:

The total aid amount is reportedly about $12 billion. A senior administration official told NBC News that the aid would be temporary. The announcement could come as soon as Tuesday afternoon, hours after the president proclaimed on Twitter that "Tariffs are the greatest!" An industry source briefed on the plan said the package could use existing programs designed to mitigate price and coverage risks, and could target dairy, pork and soy products…

President Donald Trump has hit several of America's major trading partners with tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of goods, and has shown few signs of slowing. Earlier this month, 25 percent tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese imports of machinery and electronics went into effect, prompting Beijing to respond with dollar-for-dollar tariffs on American exports of soybeans and other goods. Trump has threatened to impose broader tariffs on as much as $500 billion of Chinese goods, which has alarmed economists as well as farming groups. The administration released a list of $200 billion in Chinese goods that would receive a 10 percent tariff on July 10.

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By contrast, here are some people in Columbus, Ohio, whom The New York Times found also are at the sharp end of the administration*’s trade policies. These people are not going to be bailed out. They also are making the best of it.

Casey Jackson, a maintenance technician, said he would support the tariffs even if they cost him personally. “If it comes out of my paycheck, so be it,” he said. “You got to look at the big picture. That tiny bit of sacrifice we make will create jobs.” While the manufacturing sector is on the upswing nationally — factories have added 344,000 jobs since the beginning of 2017 — there is an abiding sense of siege among factory workers and executives alike, of having been shortchanged in the trade equation…As Mr. Jackson, a 34-year-old Air Force veteran, sees it, the current trade war recalls past military conflicts. “We had victory gardens in World War II,” he said during a break between shifts, which run from 6 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and then from 4:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. “I know the tariffs have an impact on us, but I don’t think it was a mistake.”

Attaching a completely incoherent trade policy to the traditions of American self-sacrifice in times of war makes Mr. Jackson a helluva fella, but his loyalty is being squandered on a guy who couldn’t care less if Mr. Jackson ends up in a cardboard box. Patriotism runs thinly through the Trump family, if it ever existed there at all. They have been the hornworms in the victory garden.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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