Reagan

While there are many reasons to be for or against the current administration’s tariffs, this impulse to invoke Reagan to criticize Trump can obscure significant overlap in each president’s strategic use of trade as a geopolitical tool

There is a power in moral clarity that Reagan understood well.

On March 8, 1983, that Ronald Reagan delivered one of his most provocative and memorable speeches, referring to the Soviet Union as “the focus of evil in the modern world.”