Will Donald Trump’s protectionist trade policies deliver the objectives his voters hope? The answer is: no. The most important objective of all has been to create a great number of new manufacturing jobs. This is the promise held out to former industrial workers and the ruined places in which many of them live. Unfortunately, it is fraudulent. Trump is governing in the interests of himself, but also of the plutocracy whom many of these people blame, not altogether wrongly, for their plight.
唐纳德•特朗普的保护主义贸易政策能否实现其选民所期盼的目标？答案是：不能。最重要的目标，是创造大量新的制造业就业岗位——这是他向昔日的工业工人以及他们许多人如今所居住的那些日益凋敝的地区作出的承诺。可惜，这一承诺是欺骗性的。特朗普的执政既服务于他自身的利益，也服务于富豪统治阶层的利益；而许多身陷困境的人将自身不幸归咎于这一阶层，并非毫无道理。
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