The world’s most prestigious columnist, Janan Ganesh, writes for the FT:
I have been won over to Great Man-ism of late, and Donald Trump is the reason.
The trigger for this conversion? Watching free trade, support for which used to be so commonsensical as to be unspoken, fight for its life. This is disproportionately one man’s doing.
Don’t pretend there was always a latent protectionist tide whose breakthrough was inevitable. Polls show that American voters supported trade agreements. Even registered Republicans only soured in 2015 — that is, when Trump launched his campaign. The flavour of populism before him was, if anything, the anti-government platform of the Tea Party.
