Larry Kudlow shamefully shills for the VSG's protectionism

You'll recall that I ended my post from this morning on how it's the Peter Navarro - Wilbur Ross wing of the Very Stable Genius's economic team that has the VSG's ear by wondering where Larry Kudlow stands on the trade war we're now in with Canada, Mexico and the European Union.

Turns out he was on Fox Business yesterday trying to put lipstick on the pig. And it seems his interlocutor Stuart Varney was somewhat bemused by Kudlow's attempt to spin it as a "dispute" between "family members."

Daren Jonescu comes to the discomforting conclusion that, to put it plainly, Kudlow has opted to willingly humiliate himself:

Hence my conclusion that the legacy Kudlow has been building over the years is not that of a free trade economist, as it might have appeared. Free trade was merely a convenient product he was selling when that was in demand in the “conservative media,” where he made his living. Now, since he has been promoted at last to his dream job — lackey for a progressive dimwit — free trade is no longer professionally useful to him, so he is selling a different product, namely protectionist tariffs as tools one “has to use” to improve trade conditions.

This is really disheartening to witness. We need some people who actually embrace the same set of principles no matter how they're employed.