Liriena wrote:Novus America wrote:
I mean it is actually not that new, and the Tea Party was more libertarian, while Trump took the Republicans back to their protectionist roots. Given the Republican Party was protectionist for over a century, that is not new.
Heck even Reagan, despite his rhetoric was more protectionist than Carter or Clinton.
Tbh, everyone who's looked at American history from outside the US knows that the US has almost always been a protectionist country.
In the beginning, yes....now? Sorta.