Elites, from pundits to economists, are at a loss to explain how that pig Donald Trump could be so damn lucky. There’s no way he knows more about business, trade, or global economies than they do, yet he continues to run circles around them. They predict doom from tariffs, trade wars, and economic misery, but instead, we get the opposite.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is undoubtedly a contributing factor to their failure to get any of that right, at least so far. They want him to fail, need him to fail; therefore, any theory they can imagine where he would fail is the one they pick. But there’s a bigger problem in my opinion. They don’t just hate Trump.
They hate America.
Their version of our historical success, even the appeal of the place, wallows in a miasma of negativity. They can’t imagine why anyone would want to do business with us, given our racist history (despite inviting tens of millions of people who should, by the Left’s own thinking, reject the invitation to a nation of xenophobes, bigots, and gun crazy racists).
If you don’t think they could want access to our economy, then any rise in tariffs triggers the notion of a trade war. Something that hasn’t happened despite their raising tariffs and piling up protectionist regulations that make doing business in their countries difficult to imposisble.
The same people then pretend they care about working-class Americans, and shout at whoever will listen, marching up and down the media pathways wearing rhetorical sandwich boards that swear the end is near.
And then it isn’t. Not only is it not, it isn’t even stagnating. The economy is stable, inflation is in check, and private sector jobs are up as opposed to fake government jobs that “lifted” Biden’s struggling economy. Manufacturing is starting to return, foreign investment has risen exponentially, and nation after nation has begun to open its markets to US products to avoid losing access to America.
In some cases, foreign nations are eating the tariffs to stay competitive in the United States.
It could still all go sideways, and there are plenty of doomsayers across the political spectrum who are holding their breath, waiting for the economic apocalypse on which they’ve bet their credibility.
Will it come?
I’m not smart enough, or perhaps dumb enough, to be an economist. My business experience is limited to running operations that typically bring in less than a million dollars a year with 100 employees or fewer. I understand supply and demand, customer service, pricing, margins, supply chain management, fixed costs, product and labor costs, the risk of sole-source suppliers, as well as the just-in-time approach and its necessity for products with limited shelf lives. I have also spent a few decades in the shipping/logistics business.
I also know that the rest of the world’s economy kind of sucks, especially when America’s does because we’re not consuming their stuff and we all saw what happened when the globes geniuses decided to shut the world down during COVID. America needs to control many things for itself that it was not, and Mr. Trump is working at breakneck speed to resolve that. No more of this offshoring business. This realignment can’t help solve problems other than being able to build cars because we have “The Chips” right here in the USA. Americans will do the work at numerous steps required to secure that supply chain inside North America.
Foreign manufacturers are moving or increasing production in the US to avoid Tariffs, which is also something Trump wanted. That is good for working-class Americans, which the elite globalist money people who control the Democrat party don’t like but Democrats ought to if they want to win elected office again.
In other words, much like the failure of climate change to do what its advocates want is in face more about faith and the longer they cling to a belief system the only produces lies, the harder it will be for them to stay in power.
And that sounds like it is good for America too.
