“Trump’s tariffs are a bad idea. “
No they’re not.
If Never Trump national review thinks they are a bad idea, they must be a good idea.
The author of the article might be reminiscing about the Rust Belt that occurred in the 70s during the recession and during the gas crisis and has forgotten those two major events that prompted the dying of the Rust Belt. It was a time when industry started moving offshore in order to find cheaper labor. Of course the unions might had a bit to do with it.
It was a different time and they were outside influences to the problem unlike anything seen before or since.
An interesting interview to watch was with Austrian British economist and philosopher Friedrich von Hayek who mentions several factors coming together which invalidated the John Maynard Keynes work in macroeconomics.