are precisely the kind of government intervention that produces inefficiency and corruption, but republicans are now apparently comfortable with government intervention as long as it's for the right people. it is also now a party that has developed a total nalysis. consider trump's tariffs are opposed by a remarkable array of scholars from the conservative heritage foundation to the will libertarian kato to the brookings to the center for economic policy and research. the white house barely offers serious arguments about it instead providing a bogus justification for the tare i haves, national security even though china and russia supply only a tiny portion of these goods to the united states. despite research showing that previous protectionist policies have failed, that the steel industry has lost more jobs due to efficiency in automation than to trade, and that preservegs o preserving one job in the steel