The unfair trade balance should have been fixed many decades ago. Like Trump said, many presidents before him could have fixed it but didn’t—probably because they didn’t want to upset apple carts and cause market instability and anger from our allies.

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Speaking of countries we saved in WWII, Trump’s tariffs have caused those so-called ‘allies’ to lower their masks, thus revealing their true angry face about losing Uncle Sucker, er, Sam as their trading partner. Our allies have been increasingly exchanging freedom for tyranny. Free speech is going away and now we see law fare conducted by corrupt globalist judges in Europe who prevent populist candidates from running for office. We just witnessed judges in France concoct bogus charges and a conviction against Marie Le Pen in order to keep her from running (and winning) in France. Macron is a puppet of the globalist central bankers such as the Rothschilds. The globalist plutocrats want him to remain where he is. European plutocrats do not want Trump-like candidates to thwart their power.

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The globalists who have been running the show (for too long) and controlling world leaders cannot control Trump. They especially don’t want America to stand up for itself. ‘America First’ is at odds with what they want. They want America last. An impoverished, divided, and weakened America is easier to control. 

To be sure, the stock market will be in a flux. Jim Cramer will be crying crocodile tears, and we will even hear cries of ‘free trade,’ which really means unfair trade skewed against America. It’s funny to hear the howls, but they can’t refute the fact that other countries charge tariffs for US goods while we do not reciprocate. Trump is fixing this and also cancelling bad trade deals such as NAFTA and the WTO. Ross Perot was right when he said ‘there will be a giant sucking sound’ of jobs leaving America due to NAFTA when he ran for president. He was right, but Bill Clinton was elected and he supported NAFTA, which went into effect in 1994. As a result, America lost jobs and industries that went to China and elsewhere. That sucking sound grew louder throughout the Bush, Obama, and Biden administrations.

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Rand Paul, whom I agree with most of the time, is dead wrong about tariffs when he called them a ‘tax.’ America used tariffs for years to fund government up until the creation of the Federal Reserve and the vile income tax. If Rand Paul objects to taxes he should work harder on ending the IRS rather than trying to perpetuate the status quo. He thinks tariffs will hurt the economy and ‘decimate’ the Republican Party. So be it. Change is necessary because the US faces a 40 trillion dollar national debt, a dwindling middle class struggling to find jobs, crumbling infrastructure, and dependence on other countries for vital goods such as computer chips and medicine. Trump wants to bring manufacturing back to America. He wants to make America wealthy again. What’s wrong with that, Rand?

The road will be rocky, but the destination will be worth it. After his tariff success, Trump should work on dismantling the IRS and ultimately end the Federal Reserve altogether. Andrew Jackson defeated the central bankers. Donald Trump can do the same.

— Ben Garrison

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