It doesn’t seem to matter where you turn in the resistance media. The Liberation Day tariffs handed down by Donald Trump, they will tell you ad nauseum, are going to be the cause of our ruin. The global markets are in freefall, and if only we had gone a different direction last November, none of this would have happened.
Here’s the problem. A large part of the reason Donald Trump was elected to his second term as president was because he convinced a majority of the country that the economic status quo was not sustainable. He made the case time and time again in the swing states at rallies, in the debates, and on television, radio, and podcast interviews. The message resonated, because instinctively, Americans know we can’t keep racking up these trillion-plus dollar deficits while simultaneously hollowing out the engine of our GDP by transitioning to a service economy…