'Addicted': Conservative WSJ writer warns GOP it's plunging itself into years of suffering

President Donald Trump's decision last week to impose sweeping global tariffs, despite warnings from economic experts against the move, and then to suddenly "pause" most of them on Wednesday has been met with sharp rebuke from political commentators.

In a Wall Street Journal article published Wednesday, conservative commentator Mark Helprin accused the Trump administration of being "too addicted to shock, awe and intimidation to see the harm it is doing to itself."

"In his attempt...