Donald Trump took a decades-long Republican consensus in favor of free trade and discarded it like the garbage that formed the backdrop of his economic address Tuesday.
That’s one takeaway from Trump’s big jobs and trade speech in western Pennsylvania. The presumptive Republican nominee went hard after Bill and Hillary Clinton without throwing fiscal conservatives who believe free trade is part of free markets, economic freedom and limited government a single bone.
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