We should familiarize ourselves with the name of the Heritage Foundation, or Heritage Foundation, an entity that presents itself, on its website, as an "educational and research institution established in Washington DC, whose mission is to build and promote conservative public policies." In other words, it is a think tank, a factory of ideas, which produces economic and social doctrine for the American Republican Party. It has been in operation since 1973 and has had a strong influence on the fiscal policies of various Republican presidents, such as Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. and Jr. Lower taxes at home, raise tariffs abroad: what Donald Trump is now gesticulating about with such gesticulation and such emphasis is what the brains at the Heritage Foundation have preached, and Republican governments have applied, over the last half century.