Lighthizer Wins the Long Game - The American Conservative

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : His policies dismissed the notion of free trade as a dogmatic philosophy that is short-sighted in theory and impossible in practice.
57% : He considers this mechanism to be a reasonable way to both raise revenue and regulate imbalanced trading practices: "Tariffs are good when they accomplish certain things, and they're bad when they don't."
55% : Cue the word for which the former ambassador is most known: tariffs.
54% : The last time tariffs were mentioned at the Republican National Convention with Lighthizer-level enthusiasm was at the 1932 convention that nominated President Hoover.
53% : Now, Lighthizer considers his views on trade to be "mainstream," and the WSJ admits that "Republicans have embraced tariffs."
48% :This attitude on tariffs was not a popular one in the GOP when Lighthizer started his job at the USTR.
48% :Where was the breaking point for the American right on tariffs and a protectionist trade policy?
46% : By the 1980 convention, the Republican position was that "protectionist tariffs and quotas are detrimental to our economic well-being," and by 2004, the Bush II re-election platform boasted of "eliminating tariffs."
38% : Riffing on Oliver Wendell Holmes's quote about taxation, Lighthizer called tariffs "the price you pay for family and communities."

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