Tariffs, like other policies such as student loan “forgiveness,” are intended to give the impression that Biden is on the side of the little guy. After signing his tariff order in the Rose Garden, the president handed the pens he used to a carefully arranged, racially mixed group of union workers who’d been invited to witness the event. On Biden’s face in one photo is the smug look of a fellow who thinks himself a wit. He has obviously made a quip with which he is well pleased, and he is getting the chuckles he wants in response.
