Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods mark the decisive rejection of an economic orthodoxy that dominated American policy making for nearly half a century.
Reaganomics won’t be on it’s last legs until we publicly admit all of the domestic harm his domestic economic policies did and start reversing them and everything that piled onto the spirit of them in later decades.
Reaganomics is alive, well, and fully in control.
This article really ignores American trade policy hypocrisy.
Reagan was quite happy to slap tarrifs on stuff when it suited him. He practically gift-wrapped one for Harley Davidson, for example.
Reagan was an economic liberal when it suited his donors, and a protectionist when it suited his donors.
Rejectijg Clinton or Bush, maybe, not Reagan. Not at all.
