Donald Trump’s second term would be a protectionist nightmare
His first term was bad enough
Sequels are never as good as the original. And when the original was terrible, there is even more reason to dread the next episode. So it is with “Tariff Man Part Two”. In the White House, Donald Trump put more new tariffs on American imports than any president in nearly a century. His philosophy was simple: “I am a Tariff Man. When people or countries come in to raid the great wealth of our Nation, I want them to pay for the privilege of doing so.”
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Tariff Man Part Two, a tragedy”
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