Opinion: Republicans want Trump to give up on his tariffs. He shouldn’t budge.
President Trump listens to Sen. Charles E. Grassley during a signing ceremony for the First Step Act, on Dec. 21, 2018. By Henry Olsen Henry Olsen Columnist focusing on politics, populism, and American conservative thought Email Bio Follow Columnist April 30 at 3:44 PM Sen. Charles E.
Their voice was one orthodox Republicans such as Grassley could and should have heard. I wrote that the Midwestern working class was the GOP’s future in 2013. Blue-collar whites, the group that dominates the Midwest, strongly opposed illegal immigration and thought free-trade agreements were bad for the United States well before then. But, blinded by free-trade orthodoxy, Republicans couldn’t seal the deal no matter how much they embraced their views on immigration.
Look across the Midwest and you see this impact in the election results, even in Grassley’s own home state. Newton, Iowa, was once the headquarters of the Maytag washing machine company, and its manufacturing plant there employed 20 percent of the city’s workforce and supported countless more jobs. But the plant was shuttered in 2007, and the town, in decline for years as the plant shrunk in size, went into a tailspin.
Jasper was not an isolated example. Lee County, Iowa, was once the home to the Scheaffer Pen Corporation, but by 2008, its foreign owners had closed the plant and shipped production overseas. Trump won a county that had not voted for a Republican nominee since 1980 by 16 points, a massive 31.5 percent improvement over Romney’s 15.5 percent loss in 2012. Dubuque County, Iowa, had not voted for a Republican nominee since Eisenhower in 1956, but Trump carried the manufacturing-dependent county.
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