It seems extremely unlikely that Donald Trump has ever read anything by Marx and Engels. However with Trump starting a trade war with much of the rest of the world, Engels points to a way tariffs can be used (or not used) to guard against the more or less inevitable result of Trump’s policies. The key take away for Trump here is, don’t put more tax British whisky imports….
It is even open to question whether or not that state of dullness in which the North
German workers passively witnessed the events of 1830, without
being affected by them, was not due largely to schnapps, which at
that time had them more than ever in its grip. Serious and
especially successful uprisings occurred only in wine-producing
regions, or in those German states which had more or less
protected themselves against Prussian schnapps by means of
tariffs. That was not the first time that schnapps had saved the Prussian State
Engels, Prussian Schnapps in the German Reichstag, February 1876
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