Pro-Trump Republicans in Indiana are, politely as they can, sounding the alarm about how the administration’s tariff policies are harming their state.

Senator Todd Young (R., Ind.) wants “more clarity” from the White House on tariffs, the Wall Street Journal reported.

“Are our tariffs, for example, on Canada targeted at insufficient cooperation as it relates to fentanyl trafficking, insufficient funding of their military so they can do their part as a NATO member, non-tariff impediments to U.S. goods and services?” Young asked. “Are they an effort to increase our domestic manufacturing capacity and create good jobs at home? Are they some combination thereof? What combination and to what degree of those are the most important?”

These are perfectly reasonable questions, and Young said he’s not the only one asking them. He said he has heard from “very strong conservatives — farmers, manufacturers, and good working people around the state of Indiana — [who are] asking these questions.”

Young’s concerns are similar to those raised by Indiana House of Representatives Speaker Todd Huston (R.). “Everybody from one of the largest companies in the world, Eli Lilly, being based in Indiana, to being a huge manufacturing state across a large number of industries, to being one of the top ag states in the country — all those industries rely a lot on importing and exporting,” Huston told National Review in February. “So trade policy really matters to a state like ours.”

“There’s a lot of excitement about the Trump administration and their pro-growth policies,” Huston said. “What I’m hearing is people are anxious to see where this all lands.”

If it was really true that tariffs are a popular policy among Republicans in the Midwest that will help manufacturing, Republican leaders in a state like Indiana would be among the top cheerleaders for them. Indiana outperforms as an exporting state, ranking eighth in the value of its exports despite ranking 17th in population. No state has a higher share of its workforce in goods-producing jobs (21 percent).

Yet pro-Trump Republicans in Indiana are, politely as they can, sounding the alarm about how the administration’s tariff policies are harming their state. Maybe they’re just part of the globalist free-trade conspiracy, too. Or maybe they know some things about their home state that protectionists in Washington don’t.