Tariffs are doing plenty of damage to the economy and Trump’s polls. Does that mean the Democrats will come out as dogmatic free traders in 2028?
No, because protectionism will probably remain popular in a number of swing states, and the worst of the impacts of the tariffs will probably be over by then. Americans will be used to them by 2028. You can, therefore, expect the Democrats to get rid of the worst ones in order to drive down prices, and to put the remaining ones into a conceptual framework that actually makes sense, but free trade as we knew it is gone for the foreseeable future.