by John Stevenson
My colleague Chris James mounts
an argument against Trumpians. I'm not
one, but I rise to point out a fallacy in his argument.
Chris declares Trump's
isolationist policies would render the U.S. an economic basket case equivalent
to Cuba and North Korea. He ascribes
their economic failure to isolationism.
Not so.
North Korea is truly isolated from the world, but Cuba is
not. Cuba was isolated from us, but
continued to do brisk business with other countries. The common debilitating force defeating the
Cuban and North Korean economies is not isolationism. It is communism. With a hefty dose of dictatorship thrown in
for good measure.
