The current narrative is that everyone else was tariffing us first. A lot of conservatives have been running with that - even graciously accepting the incoming recession.
I've found it very hard to actually investigate how many countries had tariffs - a lot of Google search results are focused on the current Trump tariff war. So I really doubt that most of those conservatives could even come up with 3 examples of other countries having tariffs on the US before all of this.
Critically though, even without research, it is a very blatantly dishonest take, as there's no consideration for what tariffs exist or what percentage they are at. A 45% tariff on every single import from a country is equally as bad a 1% tariff on US steel in that framework. When they clearly have very different economic effects.
