In Britain, will Trump absorb his hero Winston Churchill’s hatred of tariffs? hiltzikm writes:
Does Trump belong in this picture? British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, left, overlooks a Normandy battlefield after D-day, 1944, with British commander Sir Miles Dempsey, center, and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
We’ve been told over and over again that Winston Churchill is one of President Trump’s heroes. While we doubt that Trump’s worldview has room for any heroes other than himself, he certainly has made a show of Churchill idolatry.restoring a bust of ChurchillTrump is said to be a great admirer of “Darkest Hour,” the 2017 film about the earliest stage of Churchill’s term as prime minister and his challenge to Adolf Hitler.
Churchill established his political career partially on opposition to tariffs. At the turn of the last century, trade protectionism favoring goods from the British Empire at the expense of every other exporting nation had become central to the platform of the Conservative Party, of which Churchill was a rising figure.
After having first aligned himself with a splinter caucus within the Tories devoted to free trade, Churchill, in a spectacular parliamentary step in 1904, “crossed the floor” of the House of Commons to sit with the anti-tariff Liberal Party. Churchill attacked the Tory program of “imperial preference” with all the oratorical vigor he would become famous for. He predicted that it would lead to “commercial disaster.” He saw tariffs clearly as a tax on the working class.
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