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Can Democrats turn Trump's trade war into an economic revival?

The Sturman drag all over the media this week is about Trump on Monday doubling down on his tariffs saying that he'd impose across the board 25% tariffs on goods from China, Mexico, and

Canada until there's no more fentanyl or undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers coming into the U.S.

That's a pretty substantial lift.

And if he follows through with the threat, which seems likely,

although I'd bet money that he'll drill lots of holes in those tariffs to satisfy corporate donors,

it'll cause a considerable disruption in American commerce.

Those three countries, after all, account for more than 40% of all-American trade.

Weirdly, Trump may be doing the Democrats a favor by taking this position, and I don't mean

the possibility that he'll wreck the economy and thus his party's chances in 2026 and

2028, although that's real, too.

Tariff-free trade was a central cornerstone of Reagan's neoliberal agenda.

He and Bush wrote the NAFTA agreement that Clinton later signed, for example.

I lay this out considerable detail in the hidden history of neoliberalism,

how Reaganism gutted America, my book.

Tragically, Bill Clinton and his Larry Summers Robert Rubin crew embraced neoliberalism with

gusto, putting the final nail in the meaningful use of tariffs to protect American manufacturing

and the jobs associated with it.

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