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Distinguished UChicago Prof. John Mearsheimer on Pres. Trump's tariff approach: "Somebody asked [Trump] how he decided when to put tariffs on a particular country or to take them off... He said, very clearly, 'I do this by intuition'... This is not a man who thinks long & hard."

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