Opinion: Unlike Ukraine, Trump's China deal actually takes American interests into account (via latimesopinion)
announced Friday appear to be a key part of President Trump’s voter base: U.S. farmers.
Let’s burrow a little more deeply into the contrast between the two situations. Trump’s China policy is controversial, to be sure; his unilateral use of tariffs that act as a tax on U.S. importers and consumers has been roundly panned by economists and even some GOP lawmakers. He’s also taken considerable flak from Democrats for dipping into the Treasury to provide emergency aid to farmers, whose exports to China plummeted after that country retaliated against Trump’s tariffs.
Whether this amounts to real progress, or whether it makes up for the damage the trade war has done to the U.S. and global economies, is open to debate. But no one can credibly suggest that Trump did something improper, let alone impeachable, by superserving farmers in this deal, even though it will clearly help his reelection campaign. That’s because the debates over Trump’s trade war are debates over policy, pure and simple.
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