When a Republican president who purports to be a conservative is aligned on economic policy with an anti-capitalist labor boss and the leading socialist voice in Congress, there’s trouble ahead for America.

But there Donald Trump is, being cheered on for his tariffs by UAW President Shawn Fain and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

“Tariffs are an attempt to stop the bleeding from the hemorrhaging of jobs in America for the last 33 years,” Fain told ABC News, referencing the start of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Sanders, the UAW president’s “Eat the Rich” soulmate, topped his website with the declaration, “We need a trade policy that benefits American workers and creates living-wage jobs, not unfair trade agreements written by multi-national corporations.”

The unholy alliance in support of protectionism should terrify free marketeers who recognize the destructive folly of using tariffs as a job creation tool.

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