In its early days, the Republican Party pursued a politics of national development that included support for tariffs. But by the 1970s, conservative ideologues had come to advocate market solutions for just about everything. Some of those solutions made sense. But other policies have proved disastrous. Free trade and financialization have led to the breakdown of the middle class, the hollowing out of the American interior, and an epidemic of deaths of despair. To reverse these trends, Republicans must challenge free-market orthodo
