Protests for protectionism

The protests of the US Tea Party movement could lead to the return of protectionism and sealing off the country from the outside world, writes the business paper Il Sole 24 Ore: "With the Tea Party phenomenon ... the US Conservatives are taking on new, liberalist guerrilla dimensions. The phenomenon affects everyone, starting with Barack Obama. The president doesn't seem to have found the right approach or tone for uniting the country, boosting the economy and guaranteeing the citizens' social security. ... Obama is wedged in between Tea Party supporters who accuse him of having turned the US into a socialist country and the radical Left, which is beginning to ask itself whether the White House has sold itself off to Wall Street. ... A belligerent troop of senators and congressmen sponsored by the Tea Parties threatens to drive America back in the direction of economic protectionism and isolationism in foreign policy."

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