Julie Reeder
PublisherFor decades, Americans were told that tariffs were economic poison.We were assured by economists, politicians and multinational corporations that lowering trade barriers would create a more efficient global economy. Manufacturing jobs would leave, they said, but America would prosper through innovation, services and technology. Consumers would enjoy lower prices, and everyone would be better off.That may have sounded good in a university lecture hall. It looked very different in the real world.Across America, factories closed. Industrial towns shrank. Millions of manufacturing jobs disappeared. Entire supply chains migrated overseas, particularly to China and other countries with slave labor or extremely low wages.Communities that had built Americ
