Oh you think they did, huh?

Pack it in everybody! This guy thinks they worked as intended, that’s all the evidence needed! Case closed!

Ignore the way everything is more expensive. Ignore the way everything on digikey has a dedicated tariff column. Ignore the general chaos and the rest of what your lying eyes see, a hackernews throwaway account is pretty sure that the new tax on imports is unrelated to imports being more expensive.