Ezra Klein writes:
Sources tell me that the Bush administration has stopped using the term “protectionist” because they found it polls really well. Instead, skeptics will now be termed “economic isolationists,” so as to better smear them as people who would’ve lost World War II.
But how can it be a smear if it’s, well, true? Protectionists are economic isolationists.
Britain’s best politics newsletters
You get two free articles each week when you sign up to The Spectator’s emails.
Already a subscriber? Log in
Comments
Join the debate, free for a month
Be part of the conversation with other Spectator readers by getting your first month free.
UNLOCK ACCESS Try a month freeAlready a subscriber? Log in