One of Donald Trump ’s most interesting political achievements has been to force a Republican Party that had embraced free-trade orthodoxy for many decades into supporting, or at least tolerating, his own vintage 19th-century protectionist views . Like his harsh criticism of the Iraq War launched by the last GOP president, Trump’s frequently savage words about free trade and globalization have clearly embarrassed a lot of Republicans who are old enough to remember when that kind of talk was associated with lefty union types and cranky Old Right figures like Pat Buchanan. The fact that he has now made tariff-driven trade wars the centerpiece of his second-term economic policies is often ignored by old-school Republicans, or rationalized as merely a rhetorical weapon he deploys in cu

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