Donald Trump will soon become the second president to serve non-consecutive terms. Naturally, this invites comparison between Trump and the first president to serve non-consecutive terms, Grover Cleveland. In one crucial respect that juxtaposition is both instructive and cruelly ironic.
Trump has made raising tariffs a centerpiece of his economic agenda. Cleveland, by contrast, devoted his career to warning that high tariffs bring a specific and dangerous type of communism to America—a communism of pelf.
