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Politics

This Is What You Get When You Mess With U.S. Populism

Matt Welch | 3.20.2009 11:55 AM

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Just because it was totally predictable, doesn't make it any less outrageous: The man who campaigned daily against trade agreements and outsourcing has sparked an utterly pointless trade war with Mexico.

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

PoliticsEconomicsWar on DrugsWorldBarack ObamaMexicoFree TradeGlobalization
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