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Their thinking is that a dollar that goes out of the US is a dollar lost. They are unable to see that imports usually mean efficient expenditures.

No dollar that would have spent on Haitian clothing will ever be spent on US hand-made clothing because the US is inefficient at making clothing. Eventually, clothing will be mostly made by robots. There will be little creation of US jobs whether the clothing is made by robots in the US or made by people or robots elsewhere.

The maga and America First crowd (disregarding Fuentes attempt to hijack the term) are duped by Big Money (private equity, billionaires including tRump cabinet, Project 2025). They are fed simple narratives by people who know better. The tariff taxes are paid by US consumers and will not create many US jobs, not in any quantity that will make their sacrifice meaningful.

But Big Money and maga are equally blind to soft power.

A Haitian job reduces pressure on the US by reducing criminal recruitment and illegal immigration and refugee migration. A created Haitian job wins the US gratitude and respect in Haiti, the Caribbean, and the world. A created Haitian clothes-making job benefits the US consumer and saves them dollars that they can spend on US services inside the US, like restaurants, travel, and entertainment. But the dolts completely discount all of that.