April 6, 2025
Will Trump’s Tariff Ambition Strangle MAGA in the Cradle?
By William Sullivan
On April 2nd, 2025, President Trump exercised executive authority in issuing what could be the most sweeping American tariffs since 1930.
While watching markets plunge on the following day, he quipped that the “operation is complete! The patient has survived and is on the mend.” However, history suggests that tariff implementation is not an event, but a process.
In June of 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff bill.
As it was signed by a Republican with a large Republican majority in Congress, Democrats have not been compelled to defend it as they do FDR’s horrendous central planning and his socialistic New Deal policies which arguably extended the Depression by several years.
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