It's time for Republicans to end Trump's trade war

Where are you, free-market conservatives? Your country needs you.

Paul Ryan.
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America's protectionist president has chosen escalation. And now so should the Republican-controlled Congress.

President Trump's foolish trade war could easily send America's accelerating economy into the ditch. But Trump, against all evidence, doesn't seem worried. That leaves it up to his party to take action against its leader and for its supposed free-market principles.

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James Pethokoukis

James Pethokoukis is the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he runs the AEIdeas blog. He has also written for The New York Times, National Review, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and other places.