They Gutted Our Industries
One year after Liberation Day, the results are in — and they’re exactly what President Donald Trump promised. Susan Kokinda breaks down the blowout March jobs report (178,000 new jobs vs. 60,000 expected), the 55% drop in the trade deficit, and the hard manufacturing data showing American industry is expanding for the first time in decades, proving that Trump’s break from the British free trade system is working.
She then turns to the strategic front, where neocon architect Robert Kagan inadvertently confessed in The Atlantic that eighty years of American wars in the Middle East were never about our security — they were about enforcing the “liberal world order” — and where Trump’s questioning of NATO membership is cracking the imperial architecture wide open.
From China’s view of Trump as the “least hawkish person in Washington” to Putin’s economic diplomacy with Egypt, a new world of sovereign nations making sovereign deals is emerging in real time. What the establishment calls “going rogue,” Kokinda argues, is simply what independence looks like. With midterms less than nine months away, the fight to secure it is just beginning. Here’s more from Promethean Updates.
