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DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - I was researching exactly that this morning. So, let me make the devil's advocate argument as I understand it, and why the NGO and DC elite class are fighting to hard to keep the current system.
One-way free trade functions economically in the same way open borders do. Yes, both hollow out the domestic working class: manufacturing jobs vanish just as illegal immigration erodes wages and job availability. But in return, cheap goods and services flood in, lowering consumer prices.
These lower prices become the mechanism by which a different kind of economy is built, one optimized for high-level abstraction. Think: professional services, finance, tech, and elite-tier automated manufacturing. The bet is that the U.S. can climb the value chain while letting lower-tier production happen elsewhere.
Tariffs imposed by other countries aren't seen as a threat. In fact, they're framed as "shooting themselves in their foot." Because, these countries are anchoring themselves to low-margin industries, while the U.S. orients toward capital-intensive, post-industrial domains.
This is why globalists aggressively defend the current trade regime. We keep our markets open, even when others don't, because that asymmetry accelerates the shift to a high-abstraction economy.
But the cost is real: it’s a structural wealth transfer from the poor and middle class to the rich, who benefit from global capital flows and the cheap labor and goods that make their post-industrial economy run. It also creates obvious security and defense threats (e.g., our dependency on Taiwan).
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1907908884464914483

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Hello Mr. Yang,
This will be short and sweet, because you do a good job of speaking for yourself.
If you were wrong about inflation eventually outweighing the consequences of COVID-19, why should we trust you on tariffs?
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1907952742728859726