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Reason
Peter Suderman

America's Unserious Presidential Policy Agendas

One of the strangest aspects of this election is that supporters of both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have argued that you should vote for them not because they would enact specific policies they have proposed, but because they wouldn't. 

Trump, for example, has repeatedly called for a universal 20 percent tariff on goods entering the United States. You might think this would worry some of Trump's supporters in the business community, since tariffs make supply chains more expensive and more fragile, and generally drive up the cost of goods and services. But at least some of Trump's high-profile business backers have argued that this doesn't matter because Trump won't enact them. 

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