Great News on Free Trade!
Immediately after launching his trade war, President Trump surrendered to the “enemy.” Well, okay, it wasn’t a complete surrender. Let’s call it a partial surrender in the form of a unilateral 90-day cease fire.
That’s good news, of course, to everyone in the world, including Americans. Well, except for the Chinese people, against whom Trump has decided to continue waging his trade war with tremendous, angry ferocity.
But Trump’s immediate capitulation to all the other trade-war “enemies” is not the best news to come out of the tariff/protectionism-versus-free-trade chaos that has ensued ever since Trump resumed the presidency. The best news is the fact that the dominant sentiment in America is clearly in favor of free trade and against economic protectionism, tariffs, and trade wars.
This phenomenon has blown me away. It might well be the first time since I discovered libertarianism that a libertarian principle has gained such overwhelming favor and support from the American people. For the past few months, the mainstream press has been filled with editorials, commentaries, and op-eds favoring free trade.
In fact, it is phenomenal that the only people who are on the fringe on this issue are Trump and his loyal band of Trumpsters, who, like members of a cult, will support anything Trump does and come up with all sorts of arguments, no matter how inane and
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