Heather Cox Richardson
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7,479 appearances
87 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He has a point.
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From july first, twenty twenty until Trump's second term, the US, Canada, and Mexico traded under the United States Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA.
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Negotiated under the first Trump administration, USMCA replaced the nineteen ninety four North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, and was similar to it, creating one of the world's largest free trade zones.
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The trade zone reinforced the close alliance between Canada and the US, enabling people in both countries to enjoy the longest demilitarized border in the world, stretching more than five thousand miles, more than eight thousand kilometers across the entire North American continent.
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Canada and the US have shared military and defense capabilities, with the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, operating since nineteen fifty seven to detect aircraft or missiles, especially those coming over the North Pole, that could prove a threat to the United States.
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NORAD's Santa Tracker originally was a way to make Americans aware of what NORAD did.
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But as soon as he won reelection in twenty twenty four, Trump began to emphasize that he intended to use economic force, specifically tariffs, to pressure Canada into joining the US as its fifty first state.
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He began to exercise that threat the day he took office for the second time, saying he would put twenty-five percent tariffs on Canada.
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This violation of his own trade agreement reflected the administration's abandonment of the principles of free trade and defensive alliances put in place after World War II, replacing that system with one favored by autocrats like Russia's President Vladimir Putin, in which strong countries imposed spheres of influence in their regions of the world.
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Since then, Trump has sought to use the extraordinary economic power of the United States to force Canada and other countries into subordinate relationships.
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The recent threat against Canada came after Trump's previous tariffs either were struck down or expired.
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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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