I think you’re wrong. Hunter looks like a foolish protectionist.
I like Hunter a lot, but he is coming off as very angry.
Fred hasn’t made any major gaffes yet but he hasn’t done anything impressive either. He is saving face, nothing more. He hasn’t shown he can play with the big boys.
Hunter is phenomenal. I am more of an isolationist but I realize that my personal views are not necessarily the best for America. I trust Mitt to take America on a balanced path.
Fred will give away the store.
Pardon me for offering my view on the issue of tariffs in particular, but I do know that Smoot-Hawley, though hardly the primary cause of the Great Depression, might have extended it at the time when it resulted in every other country raising their tariffs in a time of economic strife (the market crash in 1929 that resulted in a recession). It was only one of many factors that resulted in the Great Depression.
Tariffs are a boogeyman, I understand that. But many of our Founding Fathers favored our tariffs. Some of our earliest Presidents used tariffs to help American businesses. To act like tariffs are the world’s worst economy killer is silly, in all honesty. They’re an economic tool that can harm one country in exchange for helping another in the short-term, it might hurt both in the long-term, it might help both in the long-term. Economic situations - especially global ones like the Great Depression - are rarely so simple as to be narrowed down to one cause, as many have done with the Smoot-Hawley tariff.