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Protectionism can probably be done right, but this isn't it. I think the US will fall further behind and so will it's "green" transition (especially if Tesla actually implodes and takes its vendors with it).
I also know that the US is not going to push back against consumerism, so it doesn't matter how many products like cars that they make more efficient - they will always want more. And also that EV adoption enables the US to continue ignoring public transportation.
Maybe the tariffs will kill US industry in a state of climate chaos where it can't recover, and this is the degrowth we've been asking for all along?