The first was about a 25-year-old securities-analysis dispute in which Mr. Trump comes off like a blustering bully, and this week's is about how he's going to start a trade war with China that could start another Great Depression. (Just in case the reader needs to be bludgeoned into understanding, Barron's invokes Herbert Hoover and Smoot-Hawley in the second paragraph.)
From the cover [bold added]:
Trump's proposed tariffs could lead to a trade war with China--and possibly a real war. This guy is either ignorant about global economics or he wants to replay the Great Depression. When will Republicans tire of amateur hour?Barron's risks losing its hard-won reputation for reporting and analysis by going after Donald Trump in such a vituperative fashion.
Barron's pet issues are not important to most voters. On top of everyone's minds are illegal immigration, national security, and terrorism, and to a lesser degree jobs, taxes, spending, and medical care, so his views on those topics are fair game. But a "real war" with China? Barron's should be printed on yellow paper.
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