Open (Trade) War Is Upon You, Whether You Would Risk It or Not

Remember how, after the September 11, 2001, attacks, the shock of a massive, deadly assault on our homeland was followed by the secondary shock of learning that a large chunk of the Muslim world had long been at war with us? And we hadn’t even known it?

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That’s what’s happening now in the aftermath of Trump’s Liberation Day declaration. He wisely called his new import duties regimen “Reciprocal Tariffs,” because that’s what they are. President Trump didn’t start this war; he’s simply the first leader we’ve had in generations clear-headed enough to say, “Stop kicking us!”

My colleague Catherine Salgado laid out the truth in an article yesterday, writing, “The reality is that other countries have been imposing unfair tariffs on American goods

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