Why did anyone think Trump’s tariffs would be popular?

I can pinpoint the exact moment that I fell in love with Wisconsin. I had always had a distant regard for that lake-ringed state. I had applauded its pioneering reforms on school choice, welfare and the right to work. I had admired the Republican politicians which it supplied so disproportionately: Tommy Thompson, Paul Ryan, Reince Priebus and the privately sweet-natured Scott Walker.

But the coup de foudre came only last week, when I visited the state for the first time. Driving out of Milwaukee Airport, I passed a large billboard that proclaimed: “What’s worse than Chicago? Tariffs.”