Deliver on a promise to curb foreign competition on American soil and forward a protectionist agenda? I see this move as accomplishing the opposite of the stated goal, or at least being a wash with respect to it. Not that I’m complaining, but I’m sure even a despot would do some things we all nominally agreed with. There can be little doubt that Trump has been slowed in implementing his agenda by a lack of either familiarity or willingness to work with the bureaucracy in Washington.