The economic light and shadow brought by protectionism The debate surrounding former U.S. President Donald Trump's economic policies is fiercely contested within the United States. Recent polls and analyses by AP-NORC and The Washington Post report that support for Trump's economic policies is declining due to rising oil prices and inflationary pressures caused by the conflict with Iran, with dissatisfaction over economic management even growing within the Republican Party. In particular, discontent over the rising cost of living is notably high. Conversely, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) strongly refutes these claims, asserting that the Trump administration's trade policies have yielded positive results, such as increased wages in U.S. manufacturing and record-high export figures, defying pessimistic expert predictions. Such conflicting assessments raise the fundamental question of whether the Trump administration's
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