Trump Is Already Caving on Tariffs
The oligarchs’ bet that the president-elect would retreat on promises that might mess with their wealth is paying off.
by Timothy Noah
Trump is caving on tariffs and he isn’t even president yet. I’ve argued previously that the interests of the business lobby and the rich would likely take greater precedence in Trump’s second term than they did in the first. But even I didn’t anticipate that Trump would surrender on the policy dearest to his h…
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