Comment by esafak

I remember when the GOP was the free trade party, and you had to look mercantilism up in the history books because it was dead. President McKinley, from the 1890s, is one of Trump's economic role models. https://fortune.com/2025/03/10/trump-william-mckinley-tariff...

I wonder how pre-MAGA GOP'ers are reconciling this new reality with their existing beliefs.