Jonathan Chait says President Trump’s closure of a trade route from Detroit to Windsor will help a billionaire and hurt basically everyone else.
“This episode is a prototypical demonstration of Trump’s economic worldview. Faced with a policy choice that pits the interests of millions of people against the wealth of a single rent seeker, Trump has intervened in a way that benefits the billionaire.”
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