Did tariffs make America great? According to a New York Times op-ed published Friday, the short answer is no. Peter Coy, a veteran business and economics columnist for the Times, dug into a report written by two leading economists who set out on a mission to discover if steep tariffs imposed “during America’s Gilded Age – roughly 1870 to 1900” could be credited with the rise of American manufacturing during the period. What they concluded undercuts former President Donald Trump’s economic plan for the country, which includes imposing huge new tariffs, in he returns to the Oval Office. Want mor…