In the long run, immigration policy is much more important than economic policy. A cohesive nation can change bad policies and recover quickly; classic example is Sweden, which was the sick man of Western Europe 1970-1990, but underwent market reforms and quickly caught back up.
Even world-historical disasters like Maoism or losing WWII are recoverable in a few decades if the nation is still there.
4/2 tariffs, as bad as they are, are nowhere near as bad as 20 years of democratic socialism in Sweden, and not even in the same universe as Maoism or WWII. The immigration restrictionist political faction is still by far the better one.
But there's no tradeoff here. You can deport people, close the border, and restrict immigration without economic retardation (and, obviously, short term economic mismanagement and mass immigration also go hand in hand, see the Anglosphere and blue states).
Source on Sweden btw. Everyone knows about Deng and the fall of the Eastern Bloc, but the decline and fall of the USSR discredited socialism more broadly, so more moderate regimes in Sweden/NZ/India/Israel also got dismantled around then. fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/…
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