Breitbart Business Digest: 69 Percent of Conservatives Say Tariffs Are Conservative

The Conservative Tariff Consensus Is Real

The conservative movement in America is now decisively in favor of tariffs.

We’ve discussed this transformation in the past. The post-war conservative movement was once dominated by self-styled free traders, as was the movement’s political vehicle, the Republican Party. But opposition to tariffs is now confined to a legacy rump of the right, a small minority of conservatives and Republicans.

A survey conducted by YouGov for the Economist in late October found that two-thirds of registered Republicans say tariffs should be kept at the new higher levels or raised even further. Twenty-eight percent want…

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