Trump and Reagan both used tariffs to limit foreign competition, but Trump's approach is more selective, targeting China rather than broad sectors. If Trump passes his agenda, he could be remembered as more conservative and effective than Reagan.
but everything that you see Trump doing with tariffs, ironically, you saw Reagan doing the same thing, but not necessarily with China as a predominant, uh, uh, uh, predominant country that he was concerned about, but Japan and a lot of car manufacturing, uh, that was happening where, whereas Reagan was slapping tariffs on people and trying to cut the amount of imports coming into the country as opposed to, uh, uh, uh, end them and all this kind of stuff. But anyway, um, there's some nuance to it. But it was just really fascinating, fascinating to hear. So it turns out that what Trump is doing is right in line with some very conservative and good presidents that we have, that we've had in the past. And that includes Ronald Reagan, who frankly, if he keeps on this track, especially if he gets some legislation passed, he may go down as a more conservative and effective president than Ronald Reagan.
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