The onus is on those whose favored policies have left us imperiled to present a better plan than Trump’s to defend America’s interests.
The onus is on those whose favored policies have left us imperiled to present a better plan than Trump’s to defend America’s interests.
If the status quo in global trade were to persist, would America remain the world’s dominant power, or would we more likely be eclipsed by our worst adversary, Communist China?
That is the key question the globalists, financiers, and their corporate media mouthpieces who ginned up hysteria and market panic in the days following President Donald Trump’s announcement of reciprocal tariffs on dozens of trade partners should have to answer.
For they have developed and been the primary beneficiaries of a distinctly unfree and unfair trade architecture that has left America reliant on other nations, namely China, for critical military components and the necessities of life. They have also eroded our dominant position in manufacturing and industry, created vulnerable supply chains, and hollowed out our country’s heartland with generational consequences for our people.
While this de facto China First policy has played out, the U.S. has continued to provide a security umbrella to myriad countries that have not only slapped tariffs and imposed non-tariff barriers on us but have also grown more economically and politically intertwined with Communist China and other foes.
Trump laid much of this out in his “Liberation Day” executive order and subsequent amendment to it, justifying reciprocal tariffs on the grounds that the trade deficits resulting from the status quo “constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and economy of the United States.” His critics have largely failed to grapple with this argument, suggesting a bad-faith position that favors their own self-interest over America’s national interest.
