This is Dominic Pino filling in for Jim Geraghty, who will be out all week. You can look forward to Audrey Fahlberg tomorrow, Noah Rothman on Wednesday, and me again on Thursday. In observance of Good Friday, there will be no Morning Jolt on Friday.
On the menu today: The man behind Trump’s “reciprocal” tariff plan, trade adviser Peter Navarro, is not the kind of person any conservative should want guiding U.S. economic policy.
Peter Navarro, Strange and Confused
Navarro got his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard, but we won’t hold that against him. He was a professor at the University of California, Irvine, for about 30 years. Earlier in his career, he wasn’t the cartoonish protectionist he is today, as Pierre Lemieux wrote for the Cato Institute in 2018. In fact, a paper by Navarro about the economics of electricity was published in 1983 in Regulation, then a publication of AEI that was later ...
