Posted on 04/03/2025 2:57:41 PM PDT by Jacquerie
Well, he did it. President Trump earned every bit of the label “Liberation Day.” Simply put, it was the most aggressive U.S. trade action in modern history. Nothing else even comes close.
“April 2nd, 2025 will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America’s destiny was reclaimed,” President Trump told a large audience at the Rose Garden yesterday afternoon. “It’s our Declaration of Economic Independence,” he soaringly explained.
The speech was equal parts policy, data, and classic Trumpian showmanship. And, having slept on it, I have decided it was a historic speech for a historic moment. Among other things, it completely changed my understanding of what globalism means.
President Trump said, “Our country has been looted, pillaged, raped, and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike.” After marinating in that concept in the wee hours, I realized something: Globalism is not an ideology. It’s not actually about “rules-based international order,” borderless utopias, or saving the planet. That’s the fig leaf. (Just look how fast they sprang to defend borders when Trump mentioned annexing Canada and Greenland.)
Trump gets it, and now I do, too. ‘Globalism’ is much simpler than we thought—and even uglier, if that’s possible. It’s all about money. It’s a global grift. Its entire goal is to preserve a rigged trade system, where the United States charges no tariffs, but every other country can slap tariffs, VAT taxes, currency manipulation, and non-tariff barriers on American goods. That’s it. That’s the whole scam. It’s not about international harmony.
It’s about keeping the U.S. market wide open (the “open borders”) while everyone else plants automated toll booths all along their borders.
To disguise the grift, they put on a show. The show is called “globalism.”
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It is excellent.
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