That’s what I thought after I skimmed the article the first time, so I took another pass. It says this, which I agree with:
And the Jones Act is a major policy issue in America — one raised frequently not by liberal progressive types like me but Ayn Rand Cato Institute think-tankers. It’s real and obvious and –lord save my liberal soul — legitimate. You don’t have to scrap the Jones Act — just the unsafe ships that sail in its fleet.