You would need to do that slowly or you'd really piss off voters. And even if you do it slowly, you'll probably piss them off enough that they'll vote in someone who will erase what you've done.
I think if things will come to 200% tariff, it would mean something serious happened already, and voters will be enraged/educated to some extent already.
But yes, it is multi-factor optimization (voters, economy, geopolitics), though it looks like there is some consensus over certain topics between politicians, e.g. Biden didn't remove Trump tariffs, and didn't stop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
