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President Donald Trump’s radical tariff plan marks the end of the ongoing globalist injustice that has enriched low-cost countries such as China and their Western billionaire partners at the expense of the Western worker. The Western globalist billionaire class rose to power precisely by partnering with China. The working class has been systematically impoverished, while profits and benefits have been exported to China and into the hands of the Western billionaire elite, without redistribution back to American citizens. Furthermore, mega corporations are often registered in tax havens, cleverly avoiding taxation.
After decades of outsourcing manufacturing and American expertise, some few individuals in the West have become so powerful that they also exert fundamental political influence, dominating what is left of democracy, serving solely their own interests. This is described in my book, “The Billionaire World. How Marxism Serves the Elite.”
President Trump’s stated objective is to rectify this imbalance by resuming the traditional Western capitalist principle of equal treatment irrespective of one’s national origin, halting the discrimination against the United States and revitalizing domestic investments. The objective is to establish a level playing field for all nations to compete on equal terms. The existing globalist tariff system has been based on inequality, downgrading the Western worker while favoring the Global South. This has resulted in the U.S. industry suffering in many ways, also when exporting goods to other countries.
The Marxist-socialist ideology has exerted a profound contemporary influence on society in general, but also the realm of world trade. One of the driving forces of globalism has, since the mid-1980s, been the Marxist-socialist principle that the affluent should pay for the rise of the economically disadvantaged. The slogan has been that “the rich should pay for the rise of the poor” in order to foster a more equal economic environment. For instance, the World Trade Organization (WTO) deemed it necessary that nations considered “weak and poor,” such as China and India, be charged lower tariffs than wealthy nations.
Marxism inherently identifies various societal groups as either “weak” or “chronically strong”. The fundamental idea is to defend the party perceived as the weak link. To illustrate, the male gender is regarded as dominant, while the female is perceived as the weak element. Within the context of immigration policy, Marxist multiculturalism regards illegal immigrants as the weak and Western law-abiding citizens as the strong, reinforcing the notion that illegal immigrants must be defended regardless of how many laws they break. They are still the chronic “weak party” in the power pair, and justice will only be served when the law-abiding, majority population are sufficiently discriminated against. The Marxist recipe for power was to actively discriminate against the conservative majority and crush their beliefs in the traditional, Western values that made America great.
In world trade, the underlying socialist principle has been that by introducing different tariffs, the economically developed countries would contribute to the progress of the economically underdeveloped nations, thereby eventually leading to the establishment of a global “happy socialist utopia” where equity prevailed for all. The Marxist world of “workers unite across borders” would be without God, of course, since Marxism and socialism are extremely atheistic ideologies. The strong part of the pair, Western nations, should therefore pay for the rise of the weaker nations, such as communist China and others.
This socialist utopia never materialized. Instead, wealth has been reallocated to the East, while the United States has experienced a decline in living standards and a significant decrease in employment opportunities, leading to a notable rise in poverty. While China has steadily assumed a more prominent and aggressive role in the global economy, the U.S. has effectively paid for the rise of Asia. China is now about to overtake the United States, leaving America outdated, old-fashioned, deindustrialized and regressing. Today, almost everything is made in China.
The fundamental weakness of Marxist-socialism is its inability to comprehend that power structures fluctuate. The dynamics of power relationships are subject to change over time. If China was poor decades ago, it does not mean that China will always remain the weak link. The Asian Tiger’s economic situation has evolved significantly. The ascendancy of China signifies a massive geopolitical shift in global power dynamics, and the West is significantly and way too much dependent on China. This phenomenon is precisely what President Donald Trump seeks to reverse. Trump’s rearrangement of the tariff system attacks the injustice of unequal tariffs, stops the discrimination of the United States and returns world trade to the classical Western concept of meritocracy. The hope is to halt the American decline and create a new golden age.
Note: Watch Hanne’s recent interview with WND’s Elizabeth Farah.