JAMES CARTER AND DARREN BRADY NELSON: Adam Smith “Blesses” Trump Tariffs

1 sourceUpdated Jul 1, 2026

The overreaction by many to President Donald Trump’s dramatic, new tariffs, for all of one week , stunned even us. Overreaction, that is, not from those on the left, but from those on the political right—particularly…

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