america 53again. quote, it is axiom attic that if someone is sufficiently eer to disbelieve something, there is no everest of evidence too large to be ignored. this explains today s revival of protectionism, which is a plan to make america great again by making it 1953 again. according to a ball state university study, of the 5.6 million manufacturing jobs lost between 2000 and 2010, trade accounted for 13% of job losses and productivity improvements accounted for more than 85%. and chinese imports may have cost almost 1 million manufacturing jobs in nearly a decade, but the normal churn of u.s. labor markets results in roughly 1.7 million layoffs every month. the past is prologue, the future, probably, will feature many more such self-defeating government interventions in the name of compassion as protectionist america tries to cower its way to being great again. there are so many elements, bob, of the things that, on the economy, anyway, that donald