Why Democrats should use their new power to embrace Trump’s tariffs

MarketWatch · Jon Toomey ·

Blaming tariffs on manufactured goods for the soaring price of gasoline is the wrong solution to the affordability crisis

Blaming tariffs on manufactured goods for the soaring price of gasoline is the wrong solution to the affordability crisis

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Republican election losses in the Carolinas, Georgia and Texas have given Democrats an opportunity larger than control of Congress. They now have a chance to reclaim the economic argument Donald Trump once used to break into their working-class coalition: that America should make more of what it consumes, and the government should defend its manufacturing workers.

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