Tbh this is maybe the most anti-free market administration since World War 2. They tax imports, pick winners and losers (often based on proximity to the president), attempt to dictate central bank policy, manipulate equity markets, block industries on ideological grounds. Not laissez-faire!
Faine GreenwoodSpeaking of “Americans being forced to buy products that are often crappier and way more expensive due to MAGA protectionism concealed by a thin fig leaf of so-called national security concerns”: