Why Trump’s trade case is working for him

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RADFORD, Va. — “We’re not going to be the stupid people anymore,” Donald Trump promised the crowd in Southwest Virginia, where manufacturing jobs have slowly dried up over the past few decades. “We’re going to be the brilliant people.”

He was talking about trade wars.

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