“The doom that was supposed to follow President Trump’s tariff revolution,” notes The Wall Street Journal’s Gerard Baker, “has so far stubbornly failed to materialize,” Yes, it’s “ much too soon to celebrate,” since “actual tariffs imposed so far” are “still relatively modest.” And “anecdotal, real-time and small-set data from ports, transportation companies and retailers are unsettling — they speak of the hit to come from tariffs if they aren’t negotiated down or away, especially the 145% duty on imports from China.” “But there are opportunities too: more-secure supply chains” and “a chance to nurture high-end domestic manufacturing and reduce our financial dependency on the rest of the world.” Trump’s tariff plan is “yielding not the apocalypse that was forecast, but a set of thorny economic challenges all the same.” “There is an inside story” and “an outside story of Biden’s decline,” argues the Washington Examiner’s Byron York after new insider revelations about efforts to cover up the then- president’s “senescence.” Both the White House and its media allies denied “that the president had a serious problem” though it was evident to the public. “Another way to put it would be to say that the inside story was the effort to deny the outside story existed.” Clearly, White House aides “went beyond simple denial” while supporters in the media “attacked those who said Biden had a problem.” Only now are Americans “learning more about the lengths to which the Biden team and its many allies in politics and media went to conceal the truth.”
Author: Post Editorial Board
Published at: 2025-05-07 21:57:33
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