Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast.

Today we're exploring the economic and political fallout of Trump's misguided tariffs,

exposing his self-proclaimed deal-making prowess as a fraud and his grasp of the relevant issues

to be childlike at best.

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These tariffs are much bigger than people expected.

I mean, we've got a 10% baseline tariff.

That means 10% tariffs on just about everything coming into the United States from everywhere,

with the very key exception that that baseline doesn't apply to imports from Mexico and Canada that are compliant

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