Seven reasons Ford's anti-tariff ad was beneficial

President Ronald Reagan’s winsome voice was widely heard again this week, a most welcome consequence of the Ontario tariff ad and the subsequent tantrum by President Donald Trump. The benefits were manifold. I count at least seven.

First, while Trump likes to be photographed in front of Reagan’s portrait in his gilded-over Oval Office, and has borrowed Reagan’s slogans — “Make America Great Again” and “Peace Through Strength” — he does not engage, let alone reprise, Reagan’s political or economic philosophy. For 16 years before his election as president — from his “Time for Choosing” speech in support of Barry Goldwater in 1964, through his two terms as governor of California, to his presidential campaigns in 1976 and 1980 — Reagan articulated, argued, proposed and persuaded both American