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We will be living in Trumpland for decades
The protectionism that Trump brought back into fashion now has a momentum of its own.
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Donald Trump could lose on Nov 5 and still untie the West over time via his protectionist successors.
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Janan Ganesh
The paragraph that follows is the most reluctantly written of my career.
Donald Trump qualifies as a titanic success in politics. And not because he got himself elected to the world’s highest office. Someone does that every leap year. It is because he achieved the hardest thing in government, which is to bind one’s successors.
