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I am very much an anti Trumper and went into the article with some trepidation but I thought it even-handed, if shallow, overview until the very end. The artic
by deeg 1y ago
I am very much an anti Trumper and went into the article with some trepidation but I thought it even-handed, if shallow, overview until the very end.
The article correctly points out the disaster of Smoot Hawley and the effectiveness of GATT. It attributes much of the world-wide reduction of poverty on free trade.
I think it's written from the view of traditional free-market conservatives unwilling to criticize trump directly.
- watwut 1y agoThey equate VAT with import tax. That is straight up lie. So, I would triple check any other claim they have. Someone lying that blatantly about something so easy to verify is going to lie a lot about stuff that is less known, potentially nuanced and harder to verify - like history.
- mindslight 1y ago> I am very much an anti Trumper This used to just be called a patriotic American.
- DebtDeflation 1y agoThe first 42 paragraphs read like something that could have been written by any libertarian free-market thinker at any point during the last 80 years. The final 3 paragraphs read like something written in the last few months to appease the current administration.