The 40th president would be shocked and appalled by last week’s Oval Office dressing-down of a democratic ally. | Opinion

“Let the 5,000-mile border between Canada and the United States stand as a symbol for the future," Reagan said upon signing a 1988 free trade pact with America’s northern neighbor. "Let it forever be not a point of division but a meeting place between our great and true friends.”

Republicans once had a much different way of thinking about tariffs, as Ronald Reagan once explained. If only Donald Trump had listened to him.