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I clearly blamed globalism, but was specific in how it was to blame, in that it allowed the billionaire elites to fatten themselves at the expense of the working glass.

Globalism, in itself, does not happen in a vacuum. It is the result of actions be being taken, by some, who have the ability to make it happen, or not. The American consumer bears some responsibility for purchasing foreign goods, over domestic ones, the most obviously damaging one being the purchase of foreign cars, which is one of the largest purchases most people make.

But by far the greatest blame for globalism goes to those at the top, who own or run our biggest companies. They all got filthy rich off it, so for them it was a great thing, that they made happen, on purpose.

And taxing the working class, via tariffs, is not going to proved successful in curbing it, either. That will only further hurt the middle class, who is already revolting over how they have raised the cost of everything, and the tariffs are already being reduced. Tariffs are simply a tax, and could be effective in stopping globalism if they were specifically focused on globalist company profits, instead of the working man, but that’s not about to happen.

Being more specific about how tariffs aren’t really hurting the big companies, only the small ones, is due to the diversity in foreign factories that the big companies own, and can leverage.

For example, when large tariffs are placed on only one country, like China, these multinational corps can in many instances shrug it off, by simply slushing money around from other product lines built outside China, while they simply just move their manufacturing to another one of their countries they utilize besides America.

Until you start targeting these multinational companies, for manufacturing in ANY country besides America, they’ll just keep moving their manufacturing around, like a shell game. That can be done with tariffs, but it must be tariffs for ANY foreign investment, to actually force them to repatriate.