By Bradley Jaye
The Journal’s longstanding editorial position in support of open borders and maximalist free trade policies has made it the vanguard of opposition to Trump’s populist economic and immigration policies that prioritize Main Street over Wall Street. And the paper’s hawkish neoconservative foreign policy stances are at odds with Trump’s noninterventionist America First beliefs.
The paper’s open hostility to Trump began less than a month after he announced his candidacy in the summer of 2015, when the Journal’s editorial board urged conservative media to condemn Trump, comparing conservative’s treatment of the headline-grabbing mogul to 20th century liberals’ embrace of communism.
“They pretend that he deserves respect because he’s giving voice to some deep disquiet or anger in the American electorate,” the paper’s Opinion Page editors opined that July.
The Journal, perhaps shortsightedly, reveled in Trump’s counterattacks on the paper, writing in November 2015 “[b]eing attacked by Donald Trump is one of journalism’s more exhilarating experiences… We haven’t had this much fun since Eliot Spitzer left office.”
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