Michael McDowell: Tariff war a major self-inflicted wound for the United States

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

78% : The strange thing was that this speech, in which everyone was attacked including the "lying media", was rated by Trump supporters as his best ever.
63% : All of my apprehensions in relation to Trump seemed to come true in his first term as president.
61% : [ EU plans to hit back with 25% counter-tariffs targeting US goodsOpens in new window ] Binchy was unusual in two respects.
52% : The EU is now in his crosshairs.
45% : The Fort Dodge speech proved to me that Trump was a megalomaniac and a wholly untrustworthy clown.
44% : One of Fox's more exotic contributors was Glenn Beck, who hosted an hour-long rant of political extremism.
41% : This time Trump appears to have learned some lessons, especially not to sack his own appointees to political office.
23% : Presidents such as George Bush and Bill Clinton were regarded as soft-left patsies in the political pantheon imagined by the Tea Party.
15% : Having entered the primary race, Trump appeared to sweep all before him into a trash can of politics.
13% : So long before the contest crystallised in Autumn 2016 into a Donald Trump affair, I wrote a column warning of the extreme danger that Trump, although considered an outsider, was capable of winning the 2016 election in much the same way as Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933.
2% : Trump dismissed Ted Cruz as "Lyin' Ted" and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as "Fat Chris".

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