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Stuck in the past: Trump tariffs and other policies are dragging the U.S. back to the 19th century
2025-04-20 18:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
During Donald Trumps first term as president, the United States lurched from the absurdity of his lies to the use of his office for personal financial gain, his schoolyard insults and his utter contempt for critics. His term ended with his irresponsible and dangerous incitement of the assault on the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. This time around, Trump is relying on outdated tools tariffs, small government, territorial expansion and nationalism to solve modern problems of globalization, wealth disparities, the decline of manufacturing jobs and exploitative capitalism. On April 2, he announced a baseline tariff of 10 per cent on all imports that arent compliant with the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement. Canada has also been hit with a 25 per cent levy on Canadian-made automobiles.The Trump administrations current use of 19th-century tools to solve 20th-century problems that are wholly inappropriate for the 21st century threatens to take America back to the 19th century....
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