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This is disproportionately one man\u2019s doing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t 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 \u2014 that is, when Trump launched his campaign. The flavour of populism before him was, if anything, the anti-government platform of the Tea Party.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;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? 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