From her distillery on the banks of Vermont's Mad River, Mimi Buttenheim is worried about a very different stream of madness—one that doesn't pour down from the picturesque Green Mountains, but directly out of the White House.
"This isn't a policy. This is just a sort of shoot-from-the-hip kind of gut reaction. There's no strategy here at all," she says of President Donald Trump's trade war, which is threatening to raise prices (due to tariffs) on critical inputs and turn away many of the Canadian tourists that she counts on as customers.
"I don't see any long-term goal except chaos," Buttenheim told Reason. "It's just chaos, and we're trying to—as business owners—we're trying to react to it on a day-to-day basis."
