Democrats' Indian Problem

Plenty of Democrats like to ask, essentially, where is this rising protectionist tide you free-traders keep fretting about?

Well, Kerry Howley demonstrates that the left's protectionist rhetoric is just as ugly as the some of the right's scaremongering on immigration. Sure, as she says, campaign posturing is not necessarily the same as policy, but still...

It’s a cheap shot. And when a candidate who promises to rebuild alliances with the rest of the world characterizes mutually beneficial trade relationships as violence; when his campaign casts investment in allies as a failure of fealty; you’ve got to wonder what his actual diplomacy is going to look like.

Exactly.