Trump insists tariffs will (magically) pressure patriotic companies into relocating to the U.S. to succeed in his purportedly pro-biz climate, but to make enough products, what domestic manufacturing still exists in the United States pretty much needs sufficient imports to work with.

To say otherwise is akin to arguing that if you prevent nutrients and rain from easily reaching the soil, domestic farmers' entrepreneurial genius, or that of faraway farmers who for some reason will zip home to work this newly barren dirt, will find a way to bootstrap food from nothing.

Created by Douglas Lucas in mid-May 2025 as a footnote for his June 4, 2025 article at Rolling Stone titled Republican bill would legalize DOGE and let Trump dismantle everything: The Reorganizing Government Act is a longshot in the Senate, but that could change--and so would the separation of powers, as well as for his accompanying blog post with extra material. MSN and Yahoo republished the article without paywalls.