How Did America Get Trump? How The Machine Was Built. Wednesday’s Edition.

The Long Chain: American Populism. Series 30 #2

On June 11, 2026, the Trump administration announced a new trade agreement with China. It kept tariffs on Chinese goods at about 30 percent and paused a set of higher tariffs for sixty days. The announcement was routine by now. Trump had spent sixteen months using tariffs as his main economic tool, taxing imports from most of the country’s trading partn…