Did they really vote for that? I'm not American but have been quite surprised by the ever changing Trump tariff lottery. Brexit on the other hand was kind of predictable.
You don't sniff cocaine with the intention of getting addicted to it. But you get addicted if you take it and you should know that. So, in the end, you do sniff cocaine to get addicted.
You don't vote to a demagogue to get shafted. But you get shafted if you do so. Therefore ...