more than anything the country likes certainty and predictability and they re just not finding much these days. they don t want to have to have every month a change. the point auto executives make is there s no such thing as an all-american car. american cars use foreign parts and foreign cars use american parts. so american brand cars are going to feel it if the president imposes tariffs on foreign car manufacturers, and there s a lot of anxiety given the uncertainty about what the president will do and a lot of republican senators, i think potentially setting up another big clash between republican lawmakers and the white house if the president decides to do this. it s still a free trade party, and that s certainly reflected in the u.s. senate, but the rank and file of the party is sort of less free trade than the elites of the party which trump certainly taps into, but this is like one of the few domestic issues where this