{"id":36504,"date":"2018-08-07T08:05:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T13:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36504"},"modified":"2018-08-07T08:05:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T13:05:46","slug":"are-globalists-plotting-a-counter-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36504","title":{"rendered":"Are Globalists Plotting a Counter-Revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Are Globalists Plotting a Counter-Revolution?<\/a><\/h3>\n

On meeting with the EU\u2019s Jean-Claude Juncker last month, Donald Trump tweeted: \u201cBoth the U.S. and the E.U. drop all Tariffs, Barriers and Subsidies! That would finally be Free Market and Fair Trade.\u201d<\/p>\n

Did Larry Kudlow somehow get access to Trump\u2019s phone?<\/p>\n

We know not. But, on hearing this, Steve Forbes, Stephen Moore and Arthur Laffer broke into the \u201cHallelujah\u201d chorus of Handel\u2019s \u201cMessiah.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAmen,\u201d they thundered in The New York Times.<\/p>\n

Trump should declare \u201ctotal trade disarmament\u201d to be national policy and make free trade his \u201clegacy\u201d to America. Such a proclamation, they wrote, would assure Trump the \u201cmoral high ground\u201d in the global debate and transform him from \u201cevil disrupter of international commerce to potential savior.\u201d<\/p>\n

For free trade is always and ever a \u201cwin-win for trading partners.\u201d<\/p>\n

To read the Times op-ed is to appreciate that what we are dealing with here is an ideology, a political religion, a creed, a cult.<\/p>\n

For consider the fruits of free trade policy during the last 25 years: the frozen wages of U.S. workers, $12 trillion in U.S. trade deficits, 55,000 factories lost, 6 million manufacturing jobs gone, China surpassing the U.S in manufacturing, all causing a backlash that pushed a political novice to the Republican nomination and into the presidency.<\/p>\n

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To maintain a belief in the superiority of free trade to economic patriotism, in the face of such results, is to recognize that this belief system is impervious to contradictory proof.<\/p>\n

Still, the enduring enthusiasm of free trade zealots is not the only sign that GOP globalists, having learned nothing and forgotten nothing, are looking to a post-Trump era to resurrect their repudiated dogmas.<\/p>\n

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