Katherine Mangu-Ward

But at this point, and this is sort of what The Times editorial was meant to highlight, like there are a bunch of places where it's just very, very clear that from a libertarian perspective, the critique is broadly shared.

Like, I think trade actually is the most straightforward.

The way that Trump has conducted trade policy in his second term

is wildly unmoored, both from good economic sense and from legality, like from any kind of constitutional understanding of who holds these powers and why.

And that just doesn't seem like a hard one to me.

That one seems like, okay, here we go.

I was talking with my son who had heard about but never consumed a Red Delicious apple.

And he was like, what was the deal with those?

Because they were bad, right?

And I was like, well,

OK.

And we like got into it.

Right.

We're talking about how the supply chain used to be so different for grocery stores and our transportation technology used to be so different.

Consumers used to be so much less discerning.

You know, we were prioritizing an apple that wouldn't bruise and would still look shiny and like who cares so much about the inside and last a long time.

And we had this whole conversation about how that thing made sense in that moment.

And he has lived his entire life in a radically different moment that's totally marked by.

by free trade and by all of the technologies that support it.

I do think, though, the thing you're describing where a bunch of people on the left are suddenly like, oh, free movement of people and goods across borders.