Whoever wins, we will be living in Trumpland for decades
The trade protectionism that the Republican nominee brought back into fashion now has a momentum of its own. How does profound and lasting change happen? How does one leave a mark?
The paragraph that follows is the most reluctantly written of my career.
Donald Trump qualifies as a titanic success in politics. And not because he got himself elected to the world’s highest office. Someone does that every leap year. It is because he achieved the hardest thing in government, which is to bind one’s successors.
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Financial Times
Janan Ganesh is the principal political columnist for the Financial Times.
