Trump’s Trade Wars Would Avenge Only Mythical Job Casualties
“America’s government declares ‘war’ promiscuously — on poverty, on drugs, on cancer, etc. — except when actually going to war, which the nation has done often since it last declared war (on June 5, 1942, on Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary). But the incipient war du jour is being postponed. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the Trump administration is ‘putting the trade war on hold.’ The one with China, that is. Others can continue.”