"Most People Have No Idea What is Happening | Victor Davis Hanson"
In this video, Victor Davis Hanson unpacks the media and progressive left’s misleading narrative surrounding Donald Trump’s tariff policies and their impact on the U.S. economy. Critics often claimed Trump’s trade war with China would lead to economic disaster, yet the stock market told a different story. Hanson dives into how these critics ignored the facts—strong market performance, record-low unemployment, and revitalized manufacturing—all while clinging to the notion that Trump’s economic strategy was reckless. Hanson argues that the left’s outrage over tariffs was less about economics and more about political optics. By challenging globalist orthodoxy and confronting trade imbalances, Trump threatened the very foundations of elite consensus. As Hanson reveals, the real contradiction lies in how Trump’s critics dismissed the positive outcomes simply because they came from an outsider. In the end, Hanson contends, Trump's trade policies didn’t just expose vulnerabilities in our global trade system—they also revealed the ideological rigidity of his opponents.
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