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Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan briefly crossed paths last week. The Canadian province of Ontario arranged the encounter. As the Toronto Blue Jays opened the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night, an anti-tariff advertisement from the provincial government ran during the game, featuring clips from a 1987 Reagan radio address. The ad reordered Reagan’s words but did not necessarily change their drift: Reagan, a late-20th-century Republican, favored free trade. Trump, the self-described “Tariff Man,” did not appreciate the reminder. He suggested that the spot had been genera

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