Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 13: Truman vs. Tariff Chaos: What He'd Say About Today's Trade Wars

Imagine Harry Truman watching today's tariff tweets and policy U-turns: he'd be furious. He came from a generation that saw trade collapse and democracies fall, so to him tariffs were a dangerous geopolitical tool, not campaign fodder.

Truman trusted steady leadership, alliances, and institutions; he'd see modern tariff chaos as a real threat to the postwar order we built — not just to businesses, but to democracy itself.