Subject: Re: One Possible Tariff Endgame
well, trump apologist david brooks brought up the 1 obvious reason to force 1-on-1 negotiations...corruption !
'where can we donate don? what'll it take to get just our tariffs cut don?'

regarding the cliche of stupidity vs malice, MAGA's calling card is they are rarely mutually exclusive.

(via BBC, bare bones example of structural flaw in this approach)
nation A mines ore and sells to
B who makes drills and sell to
C who extract oil and sell to
A to run the mines.

according to team trump, every country is ripping off someone and getting ripped off.
no amount of 1-on-1 fixes this.
C is just not buying ore from A.