[OC] Tariffs are one of the least popular ideas that have been surveyed in recent years

Tools used: Datawrapper

Data source: GWI Zeitgeist (full disclosure, I work for GWI, I’m sharing this in a personal capacity)

My company has done surveys each month for the last 5 years on various topical and pressing issues. The week before Liberation Day, we’d done a special survey on tariffs, and I noticed that they were massively unpopular – much more so than I was expecting.

So I went back through all the surveys in our archive, focusing on questions that asked about support and opposition on given things. Turns out tariffs are probably **the** least popular concept we’ve ever asked Americans about.

The fact they’re less popular than bringing lockdown measures back ~2 years into the Covid pandemic is something I find personally wild.