Trump's policy regarding tariffs is similar to his policy was about shutting down for COVID. It was a lot of flip-flopping between shutdown or no shutdown, and we shutdown just long enough to screw over the economy, small business, people's jobs, and supply chains, but not long enough to have any effect death or spread of the disease.
Similarly, Trump craters the stock market by threatening tariffs only to backtrack long before any benefits from the tariffs take hold (which would take decades).
It's all a bunch of pain for absolutely no gain.
Explain purge.
Don't be such a limpwrist and just say what you mean.