'Fine with us!' WSJ's conservative editors cheer as GOP pretends Trump retreat is 'genius'

The Wall Street Journal editorial board, a long-standing traditional economic conservative group that has sounded the alarm on President Donald Trump's trade isolationism for months, breathed a sigh of relief at the trade deal the president is on the verge of brokering with the United Kingdom.

The deal is fairly modest in scope, the board acknowledged, and it doesn't change the fact that Trump has been setting world trade on fire and endangering the U.S. economy for no reason — but, they wrote...