Donald Trump achieved the hardest thing in government, which is to bind one’s successors. Trade.
He moved the consensus on a big issue — trade — until the next president couldn’t go back, or didn’t want to.
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.
He moved the consensus on a big issue — trade — until the next president couldn’t go back, or didn’t want to.
Hence the tariffs and subsidies of Bidenomics.
Janan Ganesh Financial Times 2 November 2024
https://www.ft.com/content/75dda875-8398-4299-8969-4974d3b6065b
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