not sure if "trumpian" but taiwan and south korea famously kickstarted tech sectors via trade protectionism and...
yep. protectionism inflates prices, tactic there was to use it to force development of homegrown industry
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as they went from post-colonial backwaters to major players, protectionism made less sense bc they could compete
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but it's a tool not a panacea and without some sort of objective it would likely just reduce qol
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also huge confounding variables are that they did this under multi-decade dictatorships and had largely...
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...homogeneous polities. I don't think you can pull off the same sort of national project in the us as it stands
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singapore otoh is famously rich/clean/authoritarian and heterogenous but they have a very strict caste system
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