Make America make again? Trump's tariffs will only be manufacturing pipe dreams

Donald Trump's tariff strategy has at least one biblical connection: like the peace of God, it "passeth all understanding" (Philippians 4:7). Rival attempts to extract a rationale from the chaos include the idea that he is trying to devalue the dollar, or that he is seeking to "reshore" the manufacturing capacity that the US lost through decades of globalisation. My own hunch is that he just wants to show who's the big boss around here - or as British science fiction author Charles Stross puts it, that he "expects individual nations to come to him, hat in hand, like terrified…