[U.S. allies see Trump’s steel tariffs as an insult]Trump is known to brag about job creation and take credit for the economic growth generated in the Obama administration, but his big talk is mostly empty. Yet Democrats have struggled to counter Trump with any agenda on trade or jobs that touches the heart of working-class voters. [Remember Bush’s 2002 steel tariffs? This could be true even if Trump’s agenda brings no steel jobs back to the United States — and it almost certainly will not. Democrats would be foolish to fall into the trap of offering voters a Trump-lite alternative on jobs.

Source: Washington Post March 09, 2018 15:09 UTC