“There’s a lot of false information,” Donald Trump told Bloomberg’s reporters in a wide-ranging interview published Tuesday. The remarks were occasioned by Trump’s reported irritation with the “unauthorized freelancing” by those who claim to speak for the former president. He’s “eager to set the record straight.” But Trump’s interpreters could be forgiven for their confusion. It seems much of the misinformation surrounding his policy preferences is coming straight from the Republican National Convention.
On the RNC’s opening night, for example, observers witnessed the rebirth of the GOP as a statist party deaf to conservative orthodoxy around the superiority of free markets. It would now be a protectionist party at ease with heavy-handed interventions into private affairs, so long as those interventions are designed to engineer the optimal society.
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