But as Robert Frost wrote in his poem Mending Wall: “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” Frost added this further word of caution: “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out, and to whom I was likely to give offence.” These are important questions that President Trump would do well to consider. Other walls around the world, including the Great Wall of China or Hadrian’s Wall in England, are relics of history. In fact, you would think Republicans might remember their own troubled history building trade walls during the Great Depression. Today the global economy is highly interdependent, making trade walls even less likely to succeed. From time to time over its history, the U.S. has shown tendencies toward isolationism and Trump’s tariff wall is one more example of this.

Source: Forbes March 08, 2018 17:37 UTC