By the way, Jeff is obviously completely ignorant. Why post stupid?
The one column I remember, having just bought a house, was on his returning to his "roots" as a Czech Jew, berating the current owner of the house his ancestors once occupied. I remember thinking "Thank God for title insurance..."
I figured it was post Nazi stress or something. This was in the Boston Globe, btw. Pre-Slimes, iirc.
Little did I know it was an indication of deeper maladjustments.
Jacoby is hardly neither completely or partially ignorant.
Post-Civil War, as the Industrial Revolution gained impetus, our crony capitalists, bought and received a protectionist trade policy from the GOP. Always masterful at malarkey for the gullible, these political frauds and hustlers sold it as a necessity to shield our “infant industries”; complete and utter bullshit. Quotas and tariffs were imposed to bar superior manufactured goods from Britain and particularly Germany, after their unification in 1870. Incidentally, these barriers to free trade played a critical role in lengthening and increasing the severity of the Great Depression. So much for the republicrats as the party of Free Traders!!!