Ontario Premier Doug Ford (Canada's largest province) raised the ire of President Donald Trump with an ad last week featuring the late Ronald Reagan speaking out against tariffs. The Ronald Reagan Foundation also objected to the ad, protesting that it misquotes Reagan. Trump's critics in the media have countered, with networks such as MSNBC running Reagan's 1987 address, in which the late president stated that the road to economic prosperity is to reject protectionist legislation.

Though the ad didn't misquote Reagan, even the anti-Trump networks concede the featured address was slightly doctored by rearranging sentences. But this does not amount to misquoting Reagan, who fancied himself a beacon of free trade. Indeed, the 1980s were a time when conservative pundits embraced free trade an

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