Despite opposition from self-proclaimed experts who continue to gaslight the American public about the benefits of tariffs and physical economic growth, Trump's policies are working.
Two Fronts are open in the war for the republic this week: the end of the Ukraine war and a similar result in the Middle East and a restructuring of the failing global financial system.
As Trump’s Tariffs Triumph, Gaslighters Gonna Gaslight…
Despite opposition from self-proclaimed experts who continue to gaslight the American public about the benefits of tariffs and physical economic growth, Trump's policies are working.
“But only a few aging dead-enders in economics departments and libertarian think tanks continue to chirp about the folly of tariffs and the glories of free trade…”
Michael Lind was spot on when he wrote this last week in a review of the tariff issue,"Why Tariffs Are Good" (March 7, 2025). If you’re looking for a short summary of the absolute hypocrisy of those attacking tariff policies, Lind provides a useful review.
“The claim that tariffs are inherently misguided and inevitably harmful does not stand up to scrutiny. The verdict of history is clear. No country ever industrialized by pursuing free trade”
Still, those chirping dead-enders continue to make noise.
If nothing else, this looks to be a useful insight into how establishment dead-enders are desperately trying to respond to President Trump’s successful revival of American System policies.
In the article, the authors admit the American people are not happy with the economy, they admit productivity is a key factor that’s been overlooked, and they admit that U.S. productivity levels have been terrible.
What to do? Well, more of the same failed policies, of course.
“To fully address its domestic woes and global challenges, the United States will need to spark a productivity renaissance. Economists know what won’t work. Any initiatives that build barriers to the flow of ideas, capital, and people… are all doomed to fail. So is trampling on international alliances to fight climate change and pandemics…”
“Knowing what will improve productivity is harder. But economists are aware of policies that tend to be effective: spending on basic research and development, investing in education and training, and engaging with the global economy through immigration and cross-border investment.”
Just imagine the establishment looking you in the eyes and saying, “Don’t worry, we hear you! We realize your life has been getting worse, and we know why it’s getting worse, but all we have to do is continue the policies that ruined your life.”
Gaslighters gonna gaslight.
Contrast that with the masterclass delivered by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in his recent CBS interview (March 11, 2025). If you haven’t seen it yet, make sure to check out Secretary Lutnick’s feisty defense of President Trump’s tariff and economic policies.
Full interview: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Trump's tariffs moves
As Promethean Action has been saying, President Trump’s Republican Party is a new Republican Party, built around a revival of the productive working class, and Lutnick’s passionate defense of the working class is an excellent reminder of that new reality we are creating:
“… how about the auto workers who lived in Ohio and Michigan? [NAFTA] ruined their lives—ruined their lives. You know what the worst statistic that I know is? [For] the workforce in the United States of America, two thirds are high school educated, one third are college educated. The life expectancy of my high school educated workforce is seven years lower. Makes me want to cry.
Why? Why is it 7 years lower? It's not the air we breathe, it's not the food, it's not the medicine. It's despair. If I move your factory, where your grandfather worked, and your father worked, and you planned to work, and I move that factory to Canada, your life is ruined. Drugs, alcohol, and suicide—and then fentanyl comes in and finishes the job.
And Donald Trump is going to end it. He's going to rebuild those communities. He's going to rebuild it—and you know the statistic you're going to see that's going to make the most difference? The average life expectancy of our workforce is going to be equal, and that is going to be because they're going to have a better life under Donald Trump.”
Well said!
If you want to know more about the secret to accelerating productivity faster than anytime before, make sure you get your copy of Promethean Action’s booklet, What President Trump Can Do With The American System 2.0.
“Today, we can ensure the United States becomes a manufacturing superpower and provides a better future for our population and our posterity with the American System 2.0.
Hamilton identified the axiomatic basis for the American System when he said, 'the intrinsic wealth of a nation is to be measured, not by the abundance of the precious metals contained in it, but by the quantity of the products of its labor and industry.'
The great American physical economist Lyndon LaRouche (1922-2019) provided, 200 years later, a new understanding of how we can increase the quantity of the products of our labor and industry through his development of a science of physical economics.”
What President Trump Can Do With The American System 2.0
From harnessing the power of a thriving machine tool sector, to securing vast new energy and freshwater supplies—learn about the policies that will generate the greatest increases in productivity and wealth generation for the Unites States.
President of Promethean Action. Living at the intersection of politics, science, and economics. Spent 6 years working with and then leading Lyndon LaRouche's scientific research team (the "Basement").
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