President Donald Trump’s Liberation Day tariff plan and the administration’s actions since have infuriated longtime critics of U.S. trade policies on the political Left—for reasons different from you might assume.
Many of us believe that it is critical that the United States replace our current trade regime, the intensification of which left-leaning organizations and most congressional Democrats opposed in the first instance when fighting approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement, China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, and free trade agreements that followed.
