Protectionism abandoned, too, by this fickle Duce?

Ali and Steph report the idea of a tariff or of Ryan's border adjustment is gone.

The plight of PR has led to the third emergency waiver of the protectionist Jones Act that requires sea commerce between US ports to use US flag shipping in a month, one each for Texas, Florida, and PR.

And it has called attention to the Act being mostly responsible for goods from anywhere in the mainland US costing about twice as much in PR as they do in Texas or Florida, and in turn responsible for the poor state of finances of the island's government at all levels.

The Duce has progressively abandoned so much of the distinctive Trump agenda of the 2016 campaign, the Buchananite agenda, the Breitbart Steve Bannon agenda, the pro-Medicare and pro-Social Security agenda, the universal and wonderful health care agenda, the sulfurous racist agenda, the disastrous protectionist agenda, that he has slid more and more into being a mere sock-puppet for standard issue Republican conservatism.

The most incompetent, personally ludicrous, and gormless agent of standard issue Republican conservatism in decades.