Trump's Fake Fix for a Bad Economic Policy

Last week, Walter Block, who has come to my classes to speak, published an excellent New York Times piece about Donald Trump's tariff-and-farm-subsidy policies.  I have heretofore been a Times skeptic, and this may just be a case of politics makes strange bedfellows.  The Times, however, has also taken an interest in Heterodox Academy.  Is there reason for hope?