Hmm. I think most liberals would agree that taxing corporations more is a good thing. I honestly never thought about how much of a corporate tax gets passed on to consumers.

So if you just take that understanding that you have about yourself, and apply it to Trump's view of tariffs, it might help get a sense of where he's coming from.

Imagine that he believes that "taxing [imports] more is a good thing, and has honestly never thought about how much of an [import] tax gets passed on to consumers." It's the same formulation.

It doesn't necessarily mean he's a moron. It might only mean he hasn't taken that step of interrogating the consequences of his beliefs to see if there's some negative consequences to what he thinks is good. Or, more likely, he might be aware that there's some possible negative consequences, but believes that they are so small and so outweighed by the benefits that they're not worth mentioning or caveating his policy preference.