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Title: Is Trumpism The New Economic Nationalism?
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URL Source: http://www.vdare.com/articles/is-tr ... m-the-new-economic-nationalism
Published: Aug 25, 2015
Author: Pat Buchanan
Post Date: 2015-08-25 11:17:42 by nativist nationalist
Keywords: None
Views: 1008
Comments: 12
Since China devalued its currency 3 percent, global markets have gone into a tailspin. Why should this be? After all, 3 percent devaluation in China could be countered by a U.S. tariff of 3 percent on all goods made in China, and the tariff revenue used to cut U.S. corporate taxes. The crisis in world markets seems related not only to a sinking Chinese economy, but also to what Beijing is saying to the world; i.e., China will save herself first even if it means throwing others out of the life boat. Disbelievers in New World Order mythology have long recognized that this new China is fiercely nationalistic. Indeed, with Marxism-Leninism dead, nationalism is the Communist Party’s fallback faith. China has thus kept her currency cheap to hold down imports and keep exports surging. She has run $300 billion trade surpluses at the expense of the Americans. She has demanded technology transfers from firms investing in China and engaged in technology theft. Disillusioned U.S. executives have been pulling out. And the stronger China has grown economically, the more bellicose she has become with her neighbors from Japan to Vietnam to the Philippines. Lately, China has laid claim to virtually the entire South China Sea and all its islands and reefs as national territory. In short, China is becoming a mortal threat to the rules-based global economy Americans have been erecting since the end of the Cold War, even as the U.S. system of alliances erected by Cold War and post-Cold War presidents seems to be unraveling. Germany, the economic powerhouse of the European Union, was divided until recently on whether Greece should be thrown out of the eurozone. German nationalists have had enough of Club Med. On issues from mass migrations from the Third World, to deeper political integration of Europe, to the EU’s paltry contributions to a U.S.-led NATO that defends the continent, nationalistic resistance is rising. Enter the Donald. If there is a single theme behind his message, it would seem to be a call for a New Nationalism or New Patriotism. He is going to “make America great again.” He is going to build a wall on the border that will make us proud, and Mexico will pay for it. He will send all illegal aliens home and restore the traditional value of U.S. citizenship by putting an end to the scandal of “anchor babies.” One never hears Trump discuss the architecture of our rules-based global economy. Rather, he speaks of Mexico, China and Japan as tough rivals, not “trade partners,” smart antagonists who need to face tough American negotiators who will kick their butts. They took our jobs and factories; now we are going to take them back. And if that Ford plant stays in Mexico, then Ford will have to climb a 35-percent tariff wall to get its trucks and cars back into the USA. Trump to Ford: Bring that factory back to Michigan! To Trump, the world is not Davos; it is the NFL. He is appalled at those mammoth container ships in West Coast ports bringing in Hondas and Toyotas. Those ships should be carrying American cars to Asia. Asked by adviser Dick Allen for a summation of U.S. policy toward the Soviets, Ronald Reagan said: “We win; they lose.” That it is not an unfair summation of what Trump is saying about Mexico, Japan and China. While the economic nationalism here is transparent, Trump also seems to be saying that foreign regimes are freeloading off the U.S. defense budget and U.S. military. He asks why rich Germans aren’t in the vanguard in the Ukraine crisis. Why do South Koreans, with an economy 40 times that of the North and a population twice as large, need U.S. troops on the DMZ? “What’s in it for us?” he seems ever to be asking. He has called Vladimir Putin a Russian patriot and nationalist with whom he can talk. He has not joined the Republican herd that says it will cancel the Iran nuclear deal the day they take office, re-impose U.S. sanctions and renegotiate the deal. Trump says he would insure that Iran lives up to the terms. While his foreign policy positions seem unformed, his natural reflex appears nonideological and almost wholly results-oriented. He looks on foreign trade much as did 19th-century Republicans. They saw America as the emerging world power and Britain as the nation to beat, as China sees us today. Those Americans used tariffs, both to force foreigners to pay to build our country, and to keep British imports at a price disadvantage in the USA. Then they exploited British free trade policy to ship as much as they could to the British Isles to take down their factories and capture their jobs for U.S. workers, as the Chinese do to us today. Whatever becomes of Trump the candidate, Trumpism, i.e., economic and foreign policy nationalism, appears ascendant.
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#1. To: nativist nationalist (#0)
Sounds like there's a new convert to trumpism.. Or is Buchanan playing a deeper game, figuring his support will hurt, not help? Machiavelli anyone?
They didn't take jobs and factories. In many cases corrupt and leftist influenced CEOs shoveled them over there so they could get massive profits for doing nothing but strut around with fancy titles and signing papers.
If they are concerned with profits they are right wing (in the economic sense) capitalists, no?
If they are concerned with profits they are right wing (in the economic sense) capitalists, no? You don't shit in your nest and throw away the future of your industry and the country for quick transient profits.
It was all engineered by the globalist, NWO/CFR crowd. Remember Nixon & Kissiger "opening up China". And who was it that pushed for giving China MFN status? Hell, they even had an agency, "Overseas Development Corporation" I think they called it, to finance the dismantling, and moving of factories to China. And it was all done on the US taxpayers dime. And the uni-party was all in on it. And if you noticed, all of those that were all gung ho for "Free Trade" were those that did not have to worry about THEIR jobs being outsourced, like politicians, tenured professors, radio talk shows, CEO's, etc. Economic traitors, all. Si vis pacem, para bellum
I noticed. And I also noticed that our good Christian Marxist president Jimmy Carter encouraged an atmosphere so critical of American industrialists that they began to turn their back on America. He ran the country into the ground while shouting greed and excess profits.
They go out of their way not to be capitalists, that requires capital to do productive work, a lathe, forge, milling machine or such. They like the Apple model where there is very little capital in America, the capital has been outsourced. They are rentiers, seeking to live off of rents, primarily artificial rents created from things that have value due to government policy. The old robber barons of the 19th century at least built productive assets that created wealth. These Davos guys act more like the original robber barons who erected toll booths everywhere.
They are feudal rent seekers. They are creating an aristocracy, those are fatal to republics. They are an existential threat to our republic.
Another member / front guy of the CFR. Si vis pacem, para bellum
They are protected by a system of untouchable trade unions, which aren't called that but have the same function. Membership is established by titles not performance.
I cant wait till we get hit with that 35% tax increase. Life will be much better then. Oh but wait, only congress can raise taxes and tariff's. But that wont stop Trump, he's smart, all the others are stupid. He will have a pen and a phone.
The only person I know to have brain cancer for over 80 years and still be alive...
#2. To: nativist nationalist (#0)
They took our jobs and factories; now we are going to take them back.
#3. To: rlk, nativist nationalist (#2)
(Edited)
They didn't take jobs and factories. In many cases corrupt and leftist influenced CEOs shoveled them over there so they could get massive profits for doing nothing but strut around with fancy titles and signing papers.
#4. To: Pericles (#3)
They didn't take jobs and factories. In many cases corrupt and leftist influenced CEOs shoveled them over there so they could get massive profits for doing nothing but strut around with fancy titles and signing papers.
No!
#5. To: rlk (#2)
" They didn't take jobs and factories. In many cases corrupt and leftist influenced CEOs shoveled them over there so they could get massive profits for doing nothing but strut around with fancy titles and signing papers. "
#6. To: Stoner (#5)
And if you noticed, all of those that were all gung ho for "Free Trade" were those that did not have to worry about THEIR jobs being outsourced, like politicians, tenured professors, radio talk shows, CEO's, etc. Economic traitors, all.
#7. To: Pericles (#3)
If they are concerned with profits they are right wing (in the economic sense) capitalists, no?
#8. To: rlk (#2)
In many cases corrupt and leftist influenced CEOs shoveled them over there so they could get massive profits for doing nothing but strut around with fancy titles and signing papers.
#9. To: rlk (#6)
" good Christian Marxist president Jimmy Carter "
#10. To: Stoner (#5)
And if you noticed, all of those that were all gung ho for "Free Trade" were those that did not have to worry about THEIR jobs being outsourced, like politicians, tenured professors, radio talk shows, CEO's, etc.
#11. To: nativist nationalist (#0)
They took our jobs and factories; now we are going to take them back. And if that Ford plant stays in Mexico, then Ford will have to climb a 35-percent tariff wall to get its trucks and cars back into the USA.
#12. To: Stoner, rlk (#9)
" good Christian Marxist president Jimmy Carter "
“Let me see which pig "DON'T" I want to vote for, the one with or without lipstick??" Hmmmmm...
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