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Why ‘Make Hollywood Great Again’ makes sense
Trump’s new film tariff proposal is bad economics but smart politics.
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Movies are a huge part of American soft power.
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Rana Foroohar
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Maga, or Make America Great Again, has always been about manufacturing. US President Donald Trump talks about bringing back production lines to the Midwest because so many of the economically precarious voters most open to his message were laid-off factory workers in old production-line industrial towns.
But last week, the President started talking about tariffs not on steel, but on foreign-made films. He now wants to “Make Hollywood Great Again” by pushing companies to produce more films in the US.
