Thats why Reagan thinks "voluntary" trade restraints are better than imposed restraints. even though they have exactly the same effect. And thats why the Democratic Presidential contenders want to respond to foreign trade restraints by imposing restraints of our own. even though such restraints are at least as costly to us as they are to the nations theyre directed at. It is unattractive to see Democrats appealing so stridently to sentiments that are xenophobic if not worse. Did you know that the Canadians sell us twothirds as many cars and trucks as the Japanese do? But somehow Canadians dont seem to stimulate the same paranoid fantasies.
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Democrats are appealing to xenophobic sentiments.