slowdown, are washington s antigrowth policies making things worse from the president s embrace of trade protectionism to house and senate democrats. advancing the agenda of higher taxes and new regulation, could we be looking at a return to the slow growth of the obama years? let s ask wall street journal columnist, and deputy editor, dan henninger. editorial member, allysia finley and bob mcgurn. how worried should we be? i think is deathly a slow down, it s been about 170,000 jobs on average which is slowdown from lester. dad declines in manufacturing and basically very little growth in many service such as we have seen robust growth last
slowdown, are washington s antigrowth policies making things worse from the president s embrace of trade protectionism to house and senate democrats. advancing the agenda of higher taxes and new regulation, could we be looking at a return to the slow growth of the obama years? let s ask wall street journal columnist, and deputy editor, dan henninger. editorial member, allysia finley and bob mcgurn. how worried should we be? i think is deathly a slow down, it s been about 170,000 jobs on average which is slowdown from lester. dad declines in manufacturing and basically very little growth in many service such as we have seen robust growth last
but i m somebody that loves our country. i m proud of our country. and i am a nationalist. it s a word that hasn t been used too much. some people use it. but i m very proud. i think it should be brought back. i m somebody that wants to help other countries of the world. but i also have to take we have to take care of our country. we cannot continue to allow ourselves to be duped on military and also duped on trade. all i want our country is to be treated well, to be treated with respect. for many years, other countries that are allies of ours so-called allies, they have not treated our country fairly. so in that sense, i am absolutely a nationalist. and i m proud of it. reporter: so the president there, wolf, trying to describe himself as a nationalist, and mostly economic terms, trade protectionism and so on. but wolf, i think a lot of his critics out there are going to hear the words he just used a few moments ago when he said, well, i haven t really heard that theory, he didn
so surprise, surprise, now mark short is leaving. he s gone after the tax cuts have been enacted and i know personally from speak with the kochs and the representatives that as early as january they started to become very uncomfortable, they started to pick up whiffs of the protectionism that was about to come with the tariffs and the trade wars and were very concerned about this, so they ve been kind of in this position for several months. not surprising they would come out at this point, that they are comparing this to depression-era tariffs and trade protectionism. but i do think this is significant because, joe, so many times we ve sat in this chair and talked about what is it going to take the republicans to stand up to trump. well all along it s been who behind them. it s been the donors threatening them on the tax cuts, for instance. the donors have outsize influence over a lot of these
not welcome the democratic house but he also might not fear it as long as republicans keep the senate. even more than most politicians mr. trump always needs a foil and speaker nancy pelosi would be from central political casting. mr. trump could cut deals with democrats on paid family leave, public work spending and trade protectionism. house democrats could start up the impeachment machinery and once under way the momentum would be hard to stop. but as long as he s safe from conviction by the senate mr. trump might figure he can benefit from a backlash against impeachment the way bill clinton did. the president may think a democratic house may improve his chance for re-election as