not sure if "trumpian" but taiwan and south korea famously kickstarted tech sectors via trade protectionism and...
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...have strong nationalistic cultures and had authoritarian governments that transitioned toward democracy
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Replying to @alicemazzy @ClarkHat
Hm, and have been (recently) dismantling more and more of the protectionism.
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Replying to @orthonormalist @ClarkHat
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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