His mother worked as a secretary at a Saks Fifth Avenue store.
Navarro, pictured in June at a Trump rally in Duluth, Minn., is viewed as an outlier by his fellow economists
Some of his past concerns are still evident: in Death by China, Navarro blasts greedy corporations for putting their profits ahead of jobs for American workers, and he criticizes China for polluting the environment. “And you know what our farmers are saying? “For a long time, Navarro was put in a closet where he couldn’t do any harm,” says Tony Fratto, a former Treasury Department official under George W. Bush. His father was a saxophonist and clarinettist and served as the frontman of a house band. Death by China was made into a documentary narrated by Martin Sheen. Economists mocked the notion, but White House sources say it is an argument Trump gets directly from Navarro.All this has alarmed conservatives in Congress. In other words, Navarro seemed to see in China a scapegoat for people like himself: well-credentialed Americans denied access to the success they felt they’d earned.He wrote his first book on the phenomenon, The Coming China Wars, in 2006, followed by 2011’s Death by China and 2015’s Crouching Tiger. By signing up you are agreeing to our When Trump ran for President, Navarro heard a politician willing to take on the evils of globalism, foreign influence and China–someone who, like Navarro, was convinced America was getting screwed.Most economists disagree with this view. “Trump listens to Peter, especially when it comes to China,” says Stephen Moore, a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, who frequently advises Trump and who disagrees with the tariff push. degree in 1972. Since the beginning of his career, he has maintained that US should be “tough on trade, crack down on intellectual property theft, tax Chinese exports, combat Chinese mercantilism, [and] bring jobs home. The house was previously divided into distinct dwelling areas for tenants, and it endured years of neglect. In 1989, he began his tenure at the University of California, Irvine, where he is currently a professor emeritus. But he was, he wrote, “a strong environmentalist and a progressive on social issues such as choice, gay rights, and religious freedom.” While Republicans seemed to “prefer the ‘every man for himself’ approach,” Navarro believed “we ought to progressively tax the rich to help everybody else.” By the time of his first campaign, in 1992, he was sure he belonged in the Democratic Party.Navarro won the Democratic primary for San Diego mayor on his first try. Leslie Lebon is a great architect who in fact, reconstructed their house in Laguna Beach. August 23, 2018 6:38 AM EDT The family was working-class. He was ahead in the polls for the general election when he ran an ad attacking his Republican opponent, Susan Golding, for her ex-husband’s conviction on drug-money-laundering charges. See the events in life of Peter Navarro in Chronological Order “But so what? “It’s a trillion-dollar coin toss,” says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a conservative economist and former director of the Congressional Budget Office.