This is what the titans of industry endeavored to achieve. They leveraged real resources and influence to enable these goals.
Reposted from southpaw
So the basic proposal, if I’m following correctly, is to wrench the whole American consumer economy back to Gilded Age protectionism by means of Executive fiat, right now, tonight, while Congress tries to relieve the tax burden on some rich people but everyone else goes on paying income taxes too.

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