Heather Cox Richardson
speaker
6,928 appearances
79 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4d ago
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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On july twentieth, Trump said he would use Section three hundred thirty eight of the Tariff Act of nineteen thirty, more commonly known as the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act, to impose a fifty percent tariff on certain Canadian products.
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No President had ever before invoked Section three hundred thirty eight, which allows a President to impose tariffs when a country discriminates against US products relative to its comparative treatment of other countries' goods.
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On Sunday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Kearney would have to back down because tariffs will be devastating for his country.
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Also on Sunday, the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board noted that Trump has contrived an array of pretexts from fentanyl trafficking to trade deficits to bludgeon Canada with tariffs.
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And the editorial board, known for its right wing slant, called Trump's tariff war on Canada the dumbest trade war in history and said it.
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It makes no economic or political sense.
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Canada is the second largest trading partner of the US, and the editors noted that Trump's latest round of border taxes will hit an array of consumer goods, construction materials, and manufacturing components, driving prices still higher at a time when consumers are already squeezed.
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Trump's new attack on Canada might not make economic or political sense for the US, but it seems to make sense for a decaying president.
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Trump is flailing in Iran, and so, as national security scholar Tom Nichols pointed out in The Atlantic, after Trump nonsensically attacked South Korea, another longstanding and loyal ally, he is looking to reassert his dominance.
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Trump doesn't dare to cross the leaders who actually threaten the US, those like Putin, China's Xi Jinping, and North Korea's Kim Jong un.
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Instead, Nichols writes, he is trying to make himself feel better by kicking America's allies, the nations he can punish without fear that they will kick him back.
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At a better moment in American history, an enraged Congress would step in and demand answers about such dangerous idiocy, Nichols wrote.
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They would rush to the White House, talk to the press, hold hearings, and in general act like responsible stewards of American power.
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But Republicans in charge of Congress appear to be unwilling to cross Trump.
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Our allies, though, Nichols notes, have power and agency of their own, and even now are likely planning for a world in which the Americans are no longer men and women of principle who stand by their word and by their friends.
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That moment appears to have arrived.
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In Davo, Switzerland, in January 2026, Kearney warned the World Economic Forum that the world is in the midst of a rupture.
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He warned that the post-World War II rules based international order is no longer automatically a route to prosperity and security, as the world's most powerful nations are using the economic integration that system championed as a way to coerce other countries.
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He urged middle countries to create coalitions for different issues based on common values and interests as an alternative to a world of fortresses made up of major powers with spheres of influence.
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On Friday night, after recalling Canada's negotiators, Kearney released a statement saying, We have recognized from the beginning that America has changed and that we will not return to our old relationship.
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