I had been hesitant to officially proffer my full support of Donald Trump before but as I see the political winds spiral downwards and compare and contrast the Democratic National Convention with the Republican National Convention, I can fully state that it will be easier to vote Trump in 2020 than it was in 2016. Like I've said before, there are a lot of reasons not to back him but the case for him is too overwhelming. The question should realistically be asked first and foremost is this--would a Libertarian President really be able to stop Congressional budget bills? Probably not as effectively as Trump has been able to stop them. As long as Congress is taken over by irresponsible budget-makers, big government spending will continue. Therefore, I am fully retracting my initial endorsement of Jo Jorgensen.
Now, to begin the full-fledged endorsement. The first policy I will look at is trade policy. The former Sen. Jeff Flake has lately been attempting to smear Donald Trump on his "non-conservative" trade policies. Let's put this bluntly, conservatism needs to reject Sen. Jeff Flake's trade policies. Conservatism in America has been tainted by its staunchest enemies as being more invested in Wall Street than it has in those who are most vulnerable, especially the poor and the economically disadvantaged. The last thing we need is to give further into this delusion by shaking our heads with Sen. Jeff Flake that this is what conservatism ought to be and look like. Conservatism has nothing to do with the Wall Street-backing trade policies of the former Senator.
Sen. Jeff Flake has condemned Donald Trump on at least three different accounts of the President's trade policies and I will rebut all of them and show what a shill for Wall Street Joe Biden is. The Trash Pacific Partnership (TPP for short) is a trade deal that served to back the Wall Street gang and rigged the economy against the lower-class small businesses. The TPP's intent is to
further transfer the negotiation and implementation of trade policy into the hands of a small number of global regulators and bureaucrats, while further reducing the prerogatives of Congress and state legislators in the US. Indeed, citizens of all twelve member nations of the TPP will see trade policy become more remote and unknowable thanks to the TPP. And, since trade is but one small part of the agreement, we can expect a further shift toward opaque and authoritarian global decision making on everything from environmental policy to the internet to immigration. (Mises.org, We Need Actual Free Trade, Not the TPP)
The TPP is so full revolting to the concept of free trade and so monstrous a demon to small businesses that even former Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton opposed entrance into the TPP. Then came Trump who actually pulled us out of the TPP. The purpose of such trade goals is for the government to regulate the trade and control the economy to determine winners and losers. This is good for Wall Street. This is good for the Wall Street donors that still shovel money to Flake to speak out against the President and no doubt good for Biden who will be twice the Wall Street shill as Obama, but it isn't good for small businesses, nor is it good for a free and FAIR economy.
Similarly, Flake has also attacked the President on his NAFTA policies. NAFTA was championed by the Clintons in the 1990s as well as several Wall Street backed Republicans including George H. W. Bush who negotiated the deal for NAFTA before it was signed by Bill Clinton. But NAFTA has been detrimental to the American auto industry (PRI's The World, "From NAFTA to TPP, Hillary Clinton's position is complicated, and evolving"). The government regulation and control of the economy has killed jobs, moved work to other places, and has made turned economics into a series of trade wars. These are not good deals. While certainly Sanders' supporters oppose these and that might be sufficient to say that these are "fiscally conservative" deals, that is primarily because "fiscally conservative" has been hijacked by the globalist Wall Street beneficiary.
Let's not even get started with the Paris Climate Accord (or, rather, the Paris Climate Discord). The Paris Climate Discord set it's aim out to throw money into the global climate change crisis to lower the world's temperatures. Sure, there might be need for green energy as an alternative to usage of fossil fuels but the climate change doomsday-sayers have officially gone into a full-blown money-laundering cult. If the solution is to "throw money into policies that claim to lower the economy" then it's not a solution, it's abuse. Do you go up to someone and steal their money to distribute it to charity? No? Why not? Because it's theft! The climate change crisis movement has become a money-laundering, thieving cult that has targeted countries like India and has left them in third world chaos. Apart from that, most of the money from the Paris Climate Discord was going to China, the world's leading polluter. If this is the solution to combating global warming, then it must be a hoax invented by the Chinese! I say that tongue and cheek, but seriously, this smacks of a money scam, not an actual accord! Hence, we call it the Paris Climate Discord. Good for Wall Street, bad for small business, manufacturing, and engineering jobs.
Let's now turn to tariffs. Obviously, Trump has a major issue when it comes to tariffs and the most aggressive liberal-conservatives are going to try and nail him here. "We need free and fair trade!" Exactly. The problem is, we don't live in a free and fair world. If the tariffs punish bad actors, tariffs can be tolerated. Thus far, Trump has limited his tariffs against China. He has threatened Mexico and Canada but has never formally gone through with them and I don't expect he will. As long as they are only directed at China with respect to its human rights violations, this can be tolerated until China ends slavery.
Trump's trade policy has been far from perfect but it is better than the Wall Street shill Joe Biden. Biden would invest in defending failed policies like NAFTA which have victimized engineering and manufacturing jobs in the U.S. and have sent them to Mexico. This might be good for Wall Street but absolutely no one in the rust belt. Biden would further keep laundering tax-payer money to China in the name of fighting global warming while China uses that money for God knows what including even pumping out more pollution. Biden would turn a blind eye onto China's grotesque human rights violations. Wall Street would love it. They would end up getting cheap labor, they could form monopolies, and the globalist super-powers would continue as they did before Trump--with the little guys losing and the big boys in Wall Street becoming the beneficiaries of the New World Order. Sen. Flake's characterization of Biden as "more conservative on trade than Trump" is simply nothing more than a highlight of how much a shill for Wall Street Biden is.
End Part 1.
Articles referenced
1. https://mises.org/library/we-need-actual-free-trade-not-tpp
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