Longtime political strategist James Carville wrote that President Donald Trump broke the “cardinal rule” of politics by destabilizing the economy with tariffs, calling it one of the most “ignorant acts” in political history.

Carville, a Democrat, made the assertion in a guest column for The New York Times published Monday.

“In what will certainly be recorded as one of the most ignorant acts of political leadership in American history, the president of the United States has now willfully damaged the global economy with his tariff chaos. Not only was this an act of economic warfare, it has broken the cardinal rule in American politics: Never destabilize the economy,” Carville wrote.

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