Our trade policy is based on the whims of one person.

This same person is notably lacking a credible record on economic matters.

>Whatever you say about this policy, it is the opposite of the high-tariff, free trade-skeptical ethos that one associates with Trump’s economic agenda. It is even, dare I say, almost globalist.

>There’s a big question that I still have around why the administration has defaulted to the “free trade for AI; protectionism for everyone else” principle

I don't understand the confusion. Trump is literally just trying to implement a completely vanilla mercantilist system. His thinking is straight from Mun's "England's Treasure by Foreign Trade".