Politics and Religion
Wow! Just WOW!!!!
People often ask me how I deprogrammed my TDS. The journey was long—I wrote about it in my initial official column @TheFP,
Related Link: The Long Road From TDS
E Ever since Donald Trump’s first term as president, his detractors in the Democratic Party and their spokespeople in the mainstream liberal media have had a recurring refrain: his single achievement in office was a tax cut for him and his rich buddies. It was always nonsense, erasing the significant tax cuts middle- and working-class Americans got, as well as his achievements controlling the southern border, imposing tariffs on China to force supply chains elsewhere, and, more generally, shrinking the income gap for the first time in 60 years. But let Liberation Day—Trump’s moniker for April 2, the day he imposed across-the-board reciprocal and global tariffs—put to bed the myth that Trump is beholden to the rich.
What is so frustrating about the conversation around tariffs is that most people agree on the problem: the deindustrialization of America led to the downward mobility of the American working class, deaths of despair, and an economy where people working multiple jobs still couldn’t afford the American Dream. Yet when a president has the guts to use a tool at his disposal—once a common feature of American policy—to reverse this trend, it’s wall-to-wall criticism from the free trade extremist Right and, well, the now free trade extremist Left.
The message of the tariffs is simple: we are refusing the race to the bottom on wages. Continuing to do so would harm the American worker. Tariffs, instead, represent a redistribution of wealth from the elites who are invested in finance and real estate to ordinary Americans. We have to start betting on the American worker rather than against him or her, and rebuild the pathway to the American Dream for every American. Tariffs can help make that possible.
