protectionism

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  5/1/2023
  

  Why "Progressives" Want to go Back to the 1950s

  by Walter Russell Mead

  Biden's developing economic and trade policies reflect a turning away from the free market "Washington Consensus" led by Democratic policymakers like Larry Summers. The political benefits of embracing protection, populism and labor seem clear, but the economic effects are uncertain. 

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• SOURCE: KUER
  7-12-18
  

  How A Tariff Loving Utah Senator Became A Cautionary Tale About Protectionism

  You’ll recognize his name: He’s the Smoot in Smoot-Hawley.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  9-19-17
  

  Fact Check: Steve Bannon’s Bad History

  by Douglas A. Irwin

  Immigration and rapid industrialization—not tariffs—made the 19th-century economy great.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-30-17
  

  Protectionism 100 years ago helped ignite a world war. Could it happen again?

  by Marc-William Palen

  Trump, tapping into long-standing Republican fears of free trade, is knowingly returning the GOP to its paranoid protectionist roots — a move against globalization that is also building up populist momentum in Britain and France.

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• SOURCE: The Globalist
  8-16-16
  

  When Protectionism Dominated American Politics

  by Marc-William Palen

  How the 1888 elections decided the protectionist course of U.S. economic expansion for decades to come.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2-17-16
  

  Trump’s anti-trade tirades recall GOP’s protectionist past

  by Marc-William Palen

  Reagan's free trade policy is the exception in Republican Party history.