When Larry Kudlow signed off for the final time from CNBC's “The Kudlow Report” on March 28, 2014, he left viewers with the same mantra he had repeated for years.

“Free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity,” Kudlow said.

Now, four years later, Kudlow is helping sell President Trump’s “unprecedented” tariffs, going so far on Wednesday as to call Trump “the strongest trade reformer of the past 20 years.”

Just three months prior, Kudlow was calling tariffs tax hikes, prosperity killers and the cause of the Great Depression. And 13 days before becoming director of the White House’s National Economic Council, Kudlow said Trump “has never been good on trade.”

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