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Trump is also for trade protectionism which was the cornerstone of the Republican Party platform up to the time of the second WW.

[Ancesthntr]

“Trump is also for trade protectionism which was the cornerstone of the Republican Party platform up to the time of the second WW.”

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I learned all about free trade and its benefits in school. Even then, however, I understood that if someone wanted to cheat, then it wasn’t “free” anything, except a free ride for the cheater. It would be a very big net negative for the sucker who allowed himself to be cheated.

Trump understands these simple facts of life, and everyone else who condemns him for not being for free trade is just being ignorant (and, I believe, willfully so - they’re not that stupid, they just think that everyone else IS).