Donald Trump, Protectionist Cold Warrior

by | Oct 21, 2016

I just caught (on CNN) part Donald Trump’s speech at his rally this afternoon in Fletcher, North Carolina. The highlights:

He proposed to create an “American desk” in the Commerce Department to oversee trade in order to “protect the American worker and the national interest of the United States.”

He sounded like a cold warrior in bemoaning the “loss” of the Philippines, a country he called a “really important strategic ally.” “And what happens? China and Russia are probably going to take it.”

About Sheldon Richman

Sheldon Richman is the executive editor of The Libertarian Institute and a contributing editor at Antiwar.com. He is the former senior editor at the Cato Institute and Institute for Humane Studies; former editor of The Freeman, published by the Foundation for Economic Education; and former vice president at the Future of Freedom Foundation. His latest books are Coming to Palestine and What Social Animals Owe to Each Other.

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