So, lemme see if I can follow Democrat logic:
A. Tariffs are bad and we shouldn't do them
B. Trump always chickens out on tariffs and he should stand his ground more
Huh.
Just try to stay focused for a brief moment, because this is really easy.
Tariff's are simply a tax. Once upon a time Republicans supported small government, limited taxation, and free trade.
Regardless of who is assessed the tax or the tariff, the consumer almost always ends up paying in the end.
Most lay people, and economic experts, find tariffs troubling at best, because most of us don't like paying more for goods and services on top of ordinary inflation. Not only that, tariffs we impose tend to work against us as our trading partners impose retaliatory tariffs.
Here's the really important part, so read closely and learn.
Wall Street and our money markets generally don't respond well to tariffs for reasons mentioned above. When Trump first announced massive tariffs, the markets took a substantial hit. Then the Trump regime found out quickly that when he would announce tariffs, the markets would sink, when he announced relaxing or eliminating tariffs, the markets would rise. This fact enabled many of his top supporters to make huge profits on their investments if they had inside information. They would sell before the markets fell and then buy before the markets rose. Great work if you can get it.
At this point, Trump has been so inconsistent with his tariffs, that Wall Street traders no longer worry about Trumps announcements as they have decided he's just full of sh*t, and will never follow through enough to hurt them. Thus the phrase on Wall Street, Trump Always Chickens Out. I personally hope he does.