Posted on 07/03/2016 2:24:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump has found a new enemy in his quest for the White House: the global elite.
In a series of economic speeches, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has railed against the forces of globalization, arguing that changes in the economy have betrayed workers and wiped out the middle class.
At the center of the "rigged economy," Trump argues, are "powerful corporations, media elites and political dynasties" and his likely general election opponent, Hillary Clinton
. "Hillary Clinton and her friends in global finance want to scare America into thinking small — and they want to scare the American people out of voting for a better future," Trump said Tuesday in a speech near Pittsburgh.
“I want you to imagine how much better our future can be if we declare independence from the elites who've led us to one financial and foreign policy disaster after another.”
Trump’s rhetoric is unusual for a presumptive Republican nominee for president, placing him in direct conflict with Washington business groups who have traditionally been allies of the GOP.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which doesn’t endorse presidential candidates, unloaded on Trump during the jobs speech, rebutting him point by point on his criticism of trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
In an op-ed in The Washington Post, the Chamber’s President and CEO, Thomas Donohue, said both Clinton and Trump are wrong on trade.
“Let’s get one thing straight — ripping up our trade agreements, as presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump suggests, and raising a tariff wall around the U.S. economy wouldn’t bring those jobs home,” Donohue wrote.
“Instead, it would decimate millions of high-wage American jobs and slam families trying to make ends meet.”
Trump has treated such criticism as validation of his argument that business leaders are selling out American interests.
“The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is totally controlled by the special interest groups,” Trump said in defense of his plan to possibly pull the United States out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the TPP.
“They want to have TPP, one of the worst deals, it will be the worst deal since NAFTA,” Trump said.
Trump tweeted that the Chamber should fight harder for the American workers because “China, and many others, are taking advantage of the U.S. with our terrible trade pacts.”
Tony Fratto, a former George W. Bush administration official and head of Hamilton Place Strategies who has advised businesses on trade, called Trump’s attacks “destructive” and “wrong-headed."
“To trash TPP the way he does is really upsetting,” Fratto said.
“He’s not serious at all, and he’s only interested in selling in false promises,” he added.
But Trump is undaunted in the face of such criticism. His central pitch to the electorate — that he will “Make America Great Again” — rests on the promise of a revitalized economy in which U.S. workers come first.
But in order to get there, he argues, “the people who rigged the system” must be defeated.
“The people who rigged the system are supporting Hillary Clinton because they know as long as she is in charge nothing will ever change. The inner cities will remain poor. The factories will remain closed. The borders will remain open. The special interests will remain firmly in control,” Trump said.
“I want you to imagine how much better our future can be if we declare independence from the elites who've led us to one financial and foreign policy disaster after another.”
Trump's rhetoric appears to be tapping into deep-rooted angst in the electorate, particularly on the issue of trade in Rust Belt states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio.
Trump has attacked the TPP in strident terms, calling it a “rape of our country.”
While few other Republicans have used such language, anti-trade sentiment is running high in both parties. Should Trump win the White House on such a message, it could reshape the Republican Party, which has historically supported free trade.
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), who is reportedly a front-runner to be Trump’s running mate, did an about-face on trade this week, endorsing Trump’s approach.
“I basically agree with Trump’s speech on trade,” Gingrich wrote to Politico.
Meanwhile, Speaker Paul Ryan
(R-Wis.), who at first declined to endorse Trump after he won the party's nomination, has become increasingly critical of the TPP, saying it should be renegotiated.
Ryan this week said he’s on the same page with Trump when it comes to trade deals.
"What I have heard from him is that we need to engage, that we need to have very good trade agreements that are good for America. And I agree with that."
Still, while Trump’s anti-trade rhetoric is hitting home, some say Trump needs to avoid open warfare with business groups as he enters the general election battle.
“You don’t have to agree but you have to find an agenda with the Chamber to fight for together,” said John Feehery, a Republican strategist who is president of Quinn Gillespie Communications.
“If they remain divided, it’s good for Hillary.”
“Donald Trump has found a new enemy in his quest for the White House: the global elite.”
His enemy is our enemy.
What’s with all the trash-talk about the GLOBALISTS. Don’t they have our best interest at heart?
Many manufacturing jobs and those plants or companies did not leave the USA because they wanted to....the Elephant in the jobs loss room is partly our UNIONS and their power....no one wants to discuss that. The other Elephant in the room could be the robot....no strikes over wages, health or pensions.....the other bug-a-boo is population.
No coincidence that the unions back the globalist domestic politicians who raise corporate taxes and regulations (via the executive branch). Getting rid of the requirement that union officials affirm that they are not communists was certainly no help to say the least.
GLOBAL ELITE ?
Globalist , yes
Elite , no . Actually the power is owned and grabbed by a fake “elite” , rather croocks
“The UN -American Agenda of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce”
“The Chamber’s interests do not include America, its people, and not even American small businesses. They are a multi-national friendly organization that is more concerned with creating China’s business climate in America than our economy or jobs at home”-
-http://archives.politicususa.com/2011/06/27/un-american-coc.html
“According to the Freedom Advocates online white paper and pamphlet, last revised in 2012, “Understanding Sustainable Development — Agenda 21: For the People and their Public Officials,”-
-the United Nations accredited more than 2000 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to implement Agenda 21 in America, for which the U.S. government gives them massive tax advantages. The list of NGOs includes the Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, the National Audubon Society, the American Planning Association, the National Teachers Association, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,”
Bingo. Creeping into every area of our lives.
These demons are most effective when they employ incrementalism. Lately they’ve been getting impatient and greedy and they overreach.
We are in the midst of an epic struggle. One man standing is against the legion of treasonous bas-—ds that are decimating this nation.
O.k.
Freedom to the people!(enough elitist control)
Subsidiarity and solidarity! (get out of our lives elitist globalists and let us soar)
Re-build the middle class.
(the middle class, the true heart and soul of America and beyond)
And thus, Trump is our friend. Que no?
Trump has the right side of these issues. Of course, the media is against him and so he has an uphill fight. He deserves our support.
This election cycle can’t get over soon enough for me.
Hi fearless moderators,
I just noticed that 2ndDivisionVet seems to have been suspended.
Just saying, I am for him being reinstated at some point. I understand he took a bad turn for Ted Cruz recently, but he is a pretty consistent and very good poster otherwise.
Just my opinion. Thanks for listening.
Hi Jim:
Greetings I don’t know how long it has been since I wrote to you. Quite a while. I believe the last time was several years ago, when 2ndDivisionVet was also somehow booted off the website. I was posting as Cringing Negativism Network then.
I am writing just to ask, whether there is any way you might reinstate 2ndDivisionVet?
I agree he got off the reservation with his Ted Cruz support recently, but he’s a pretty solid and very consistent poster. Big time. And solidly on the right side, of most every issue out there.
Thanks for listening. Thanks for the very good website, I am a big fan.
Respectfully your,
CBA123
I second this. Or at least some details on the situation.
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