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trump’s tariffs will not cause inflation

friday, april 11th, 2024

A On April 2, Liberation Day, President Trump imposed reciprocal tariffs across the board. The President noted that they were “kind” tariffs, since they were only half the rate that American producers are charged. For now, at least.

Critics have lamented that tariffs will raise the cost of goods, as if the Constitution codified the right to buy “cheap” Chinese goods.

While there will be an adjustment period -- as with any major policy shift -- tariffs will not cause inflation in the long term. In fact, they will likely lower the cost of goods over time.

Asleep at the Wheel

Over the last fifty years, the American people have been subjected to an experiment with economic globalism. This has hollowed out American industries, destroyed millions of jobs, and endangered America’s national security. The one benefit that the public as promised was that goods would be cheap -- that the cost of living would go down.

This was a false promise. Compare recent history: President Trump’s tariffs did not raise the cost of goods during his first term. Meanwhile, inflation was rampant during President Biden’s term, despite his walking back most of President Trump’s trade agenda. Further, America had the highest average tariff rates in the world during the nineteenth century, during which time America’s industry flourished and the cost of living decreased year after year.

In addition to the evidence, economic logic reaches the same conclusion. Tariffs are taxes on imports. Accordingly, they can be entirely avoided by buying American. This creates a strong incentive for foreign producers to lower their costs. That is, if countries like China or Mexico want access to America’s market -- which they do -- then they will have to find a way to reduce their costs to balance out the tariff. Ultimately, lower production costs will benefit everyone.

Critics will argue that even if you buy American, you will still end up paying more. Why? American goods cost more to begin with, and without foreign competition, American businesses will price-gouge.

This may not be true in the short term, and is certainly false in the long term. To begin with, America’s manufacturing industry is among the most productive in the world. Given that productivity is what ultimately drives prices, America’s manufactured goods should also be among the cheapest in the world.

The issue is that prices are skewed by economic externalities, foreign currency manipulation, and predatory trade practices. This results in efficient and cost-effective American factories being closed, while inefficient foreign factories -- in places like Italy and Germany -- remain open for business. Protecting American markets from abuse will help our domestic free market function more efficiently, rather than pitting American businesses against state-backed foreign rivals. This will lower costs as the market adjusts to the new normal.

Tariffs will also reshore American factories and thereby increase domestic output. Manufacturing is an interesting industry, because prices are subject to the law of increasing returns. That is, the more that we manufacture, the lower the price of each unit of production becomes. This is because capital costs are fixed, and the more we make, the more these costs are disbursed. As such, there is good reason to expect that prices of American products will actually decrease after the market adjusts to tariffs.

What is Seen and What is Unseen

Despite allegedly caring about consumer prices, the media conveniently forget that economic globalism causes inflation of a different kind.

Remember, America imports far more than it exports. This results in a trade deficit which we need to pay for. How? By selling assets and debts. As a result, the trade deficit directly contributes to the increase in prices – inflation -- of American assets and debts. For example, in 2024 foreigners bought an estimated $42 billion of residential real estate, $8 billion of agricultural land, and $12 billion commercial real estate. This drives up real-estate prices, locking our own young people out of the real-estate market -- denying them their share of the American Dream.

America also trades debt. This is sort of like buying groceries on our credit cards, except is occurring at the national level. For example, foreigners own some $8.67 trillion of U.S. Treasury securities, accounting for 24 percent of the public debt. Further, America’s corporate and household debt has ballooned since 1973 to the highest levels since World War II.

Debt is especially dangerous because we have to repay the principle and we pay interest. This inflates the cost of buying foreign products in a way that most economists fail to appreciate. Consider that America became a debtor nation in 2006 -- for the first time since the Great Depression. As a result, we are now paying over $150 billion in interest every year to foreign entities for the privilege of buying the products we should be building.

The elites oppose tariffs because consumer goods -- things people want -- may rise in price. In comparison, the absence of tariffs inflates the price of housing -- something people need. From this, we can see that the elites do not actually care about inflation.

In any case, America is not a market. America is a nation. The primary purpose of government is not to guarantee access to Chinese products. “Free” trade needs to be balanced with other values, like ensuring that America does not depend on Chinese imports for our national security, or providing hardworking American people with jobs so that they can support their families. President Trump’s tariffs do just that, with the added bonus that they will not likely cause inflation.

A Day In The Life.

Up at 7:15a on Friday, a mild 57°F, drizzly, damp morning, I turned-off the heat, tuned into the "CP Show LIVE", made coffee, fired-up the Ol' Win-7 Pentium HP Desktop Computer, to let 32 million lines of code load, had a couple smokes in the garage and checked the day's list of stuff to do. Sherry will be here around mid-afternoon, and we'll have some quality time together. After a nice breakfast, I got ready for the day.

Sherry got here around 2:30, and we spent the afternoon together, having our usual wonderful time, with lots of hugs and kisses. After she left, I had dinner, watched the news and switched to Discovery's "Gold Rush" until just after midnight. Lights out.

Sleeping-in until 10a on Saturday, a cloudy, drizzly, 56° morning. I really needed that extra 2hrs of sleep. I made some new Volcanica Co Kona "Peaberry" Coffee, had a couple smokes in the now-open garage, enjoyed the birds' Spring songs, and reviewed what needed to get done today. I tuned into yesterdays "CP Show Podcast" for a while, scanned the news and weather, and just relaxed until noon. I needed to drive over to nearby Rite Aid, so I left at 2p.

Back by 2:30p, in very heavy weekend traffic, I had a pile of condo chores to do all afternoon, and tomorrow, in addition to the usual laundry routine. I rechecked the news and weather, and spent hours opening recent product purchases' packages, re-arranging "Prep Shelves", to accommodate the new products. Shit, I'm out of shelf space. 17 shelves, 5 shelves per unit, 85 individual shelves and I need MORE! I took a break and watched tomorrow's F1 Japanese GP Qualifying Trials. made Lobster-Angel Hair Pasta? for dinner, and watched the news. I worked on "The Document" for a couple hours, tried to tune into the F1-TV Japanese GP at 1a, but couldn't make the ESPN TV or computer LIVE RACE connection, and gave up. Lights out.

Up at 9:15a on Sunday, a heavily-overcast, very foggy, rainy, 47° morning. I made coffee, warmed the condo up, and then cut the heat, skipped breakfast, and scanned the news and weather. The forecast is for SNOW, from 3-4a, with little to no accumulation. Heh! Folks down South can't catch a break from the catastrophic tornadoes, rain and floods ravaging Tennessee, Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky and Arkansas, with a death toll at 17, so far. Sad.

I did a load of laundry, and several condo chores to do, watched the highlights of the Japanese F1 Grand Prix race -- I don't have F1-TV this year -- caught the evening news and a Discovery series, called "Filthy Fortunes", got the garbage and recycle bins out to the curb, and called it a day, at 11p.

Up at 8a on Monday, an overcast, rainy, foggy, cold, 36° morning, forecast for only in low-to-mid-40s. Hey, wear a coat; Winter's still around. I listened to the morning's "CP Show LIVE" until 12noon, then left for points south and only 2 errands. Traffic was moderate, and making good time, I was back before 1p. I have a Weis Market 2-4p delivery window, so I did some 'fridge cleaning to get ready for new stuff. No nap today. I enjoyed the semi-warm weather, since colder weather is coming tomorrow and thru the week.

I closed the condo down around 7p, as temps were dropping quickly, upped the heat and made dinner. I watched the FNC News, then switched to History's "Ancient Aliens" until 12:30a, and unplugged.

Up at 8:45a on Tuesday, a sunny, very windy, cold 35° morning, I upped the heat, made coffee and tuned into the "CP Show LIVE", from 9-12. With all the turmoil that the stock markets are going thru, I check my WF Investments and IRAs almost daily, and there's the daily/occasional RED INK, but not a 'bloodbath', yet. While listening to CP, I read 5-6+ of these stories, about the demented Left wanting Trump and Musk KILLED. Seriously? That wouldn't end well for them; they obviously haven't thought this out. Damn.

I left around 12 noon, to get 3 quick, local errands done, and was back home by 1. A cold, windy 42° day, with frost and flurries forecast for tonite, I'm still telling people that "Winter's not done with us yet", as I do every year. After a Grilled Cheese & Tomato Soup for lunch, I couldn't grab a snooze, re-scanned the news headlines, and finished-up some condo basement chores on the 'Prep Shelves', and went out for a short walk around the condo complex.

I watched the evening news, and switched to History's "Curse of Oak Island" and Discovery's "Filthy Fortunes" until 11:30p. Lights out.

Up at 7a on Wednesday, a sunny, clear, cold 28° morning. I upped the heat, made coffee, had breakfast, and tuned into the "CP Show LIVE", from 9-12. No errands today, so I finished-up a small task here, and spent the afternoon on the computer. I kept checking the Stock and Bond Markets, watching it ping-pong all over the place, and my IRAs and especially my large Investment Accounts grow and grow. Nice.

I closed down the condo around 6p, had dinner, watched the news, switched to History's "American Pickers" until midnight, and unplugged.

I overslept until 9:30a on Thursday, and tried to catch-up on the morning's routine quickly. It was a nippy 42°, rainy, with heavy rain forecast for later, and several rain-filled days ahead. Good; we can use the water. I upped the heat, made coffee, scanned the news and weather on the HP Desktop, and tuned into the "CP Show LIVE". Sherry would be here around 1p, so I needed to get the stuff done, and get ready for the day.

Once again, this morning, the pathetic Stock and Bond Markets are bouncing around like rubber balls in zero gravity, the "Tariff War" continues, but at least I had Sherry for the day, and all was well. We drove over to her Daughter's magical, little shop, in nearby Hallam, and then stopped aat Saubel's Market. Both of us had back/hip pain, but had a great time together, as usual -- albeit much too short -- and she was gone by 5:30p, or so. I had dinner, watched the news and some FNC offerings, until 11:30, and bagged it for the night.

Tomorrow starts a new week, here in the "Journal", and it's another clear one for me. I'll call Sherry over the weekend, and we'll get a day of two planned for ourselves.

Free Trade: Reagan and the Austrians vs. the World of Today.

I was raised to respect the Austrian School of economics. From the hardliners at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and Reason to the more moderate libertarians like Milton Friedman and President Reagan, the conservatives of my generation (I’m 62) knew several things with absolute certainty:

• Taxation is Theft.
• The most important goal of our Founding Fathers was limiting the size and scope of government.
• The Invisible Hand of the Free Market delivers the best results for the consumer.

At the same time, however, we recognized certain other fundamental truths of government:

• Government is instituted to protect society from external enemies and internal criminals.
•Government needs to build roads and bridges.
•Government needs to provide a framework of stable currency, the rule of law, corporate structure, intellectual property protection, and an investment system in which people can work, and earn, and accumulate wealth.

How did we square these two sets of rules – the opposition to government and a clear need for government?

By understanding the importance of both, and balancing them, all with an eye to the cardinal rule of obeying the Constitution.

Yes, we need police and courts and prisons; yes, we need an army and navy and air force. A nation as big as ours will need its government to do many expensive things, so we must always be on our guard to do these things as cost-effectively as possible.

When the left has proposed other expensive things – unconstitutional things – one of our responses has rightly been, “We can’t afford to do the things we have to do; don’t propose more costly unconstitutional things that we can’t afford anyway.” It still happens, of course; the Left is more adept at their goal of violating the law than the right is at obeying it. But at least we have always tried. We of the right always understood this need to find a middle ground between absolutely minimal government and a government that meets its legitimate needs, like B-52s, ICBMS, and modern containerports.

Nowhere is there a better example than in the current debate – referred to online as “What Would Reagan Do?” – about tariffs and free trade.

President Trump has proposed a high tariff barrier to force foreign governments to reduce the massive barriers – both tariff and non-tariff – that they have erected against American exports.

And the natural response of good Reaganites and Friedmanites is to look back in our memories and recall how Ronaldus Magnus and the great professor from the Chicago School referred to trade and tariffs.

Search engines produce plenty of quotes; YouTube finds us wonderful sound bites. Forty years ago, the conservative position was crystal clear: tariffs should be low, if we must have them at all, because high tariffs just serve to reduce options and raise prices for the consumer. Choices and cheapness were the goals of the hour.

We should not be so quick to assume, however, that the proclamations of our youth still apply. The global economy has changed in several ways since then, ways that neither Reagan nor Friedman ever anticipated.

At the time when Reagan and Friedman were rightly singing the praises of the free market, the United States had two general levels of tariffs in place: low duty rates for goods made in most-favored-nation (MFN) countries, and the high rates (ranging from 30 to 60 percent) that we assessed on Warsaw Pact members.

We basically didn’t trade with our main enemies – the Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, North Korea, etc. We didn’t export to them and we didn’t import from them … but if by some odd chance we unexpectedly imported something from a third country that had been made behind the Iron Curtain, we walloped it with huge tariffs (known as Column 2 duties) that were five to ten times the rates we assessed on the products of Canada, Western Europe and our other friends.

These high tariffs are still in place, in fact – they never went away – but the list of countries they cover was greatly reduced. Since the Soviet Union broke up, the Column 2 tariffs only applied Cuba and North Korea for years, though Russia and Belarus were recently added back in, due to Russia's Ukraine invasion.

It’s been a while, and I must admit, I don’t know for sure if the question was ever asked of them, but I don’t recall either Reagan or Friedman ever calling for the elimination of the Column 2 tariffs. They both knew that the Soviet Union, with its continual efforts to spread communism around the globe, was our undeniable enemy. We traded with them as little as possible (we sold basic commodities like grain, more from a humanitarian effort than anything else), and we never even considered opening up broad trade or lowering our high tariffs on the Warsaw Pact countries until the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Politburo was tossed out on their ears.

And that’s not the only difference between then and now.

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, Western Europe was still a continent of separate, sovereign nations. West Germany, Italy, France, the U.K., et al. were separate countries that set their tariffs independently of each other. Yes, they all joined the world in adopting the Harmonized Tariff System in the mid 1980s, but they were still relatively reasonable in terms of their import/export processes. Outside of products meriting serious safety concerns, like foods and beverages, most products could be imported freely, with a low duty payment upon importation and then unobstructed entry into their marketplace.

Fortress Europe put an end to all that.

From the 1990s onward, the EU dreamed of building a government that only an Orwellian bureaucrat could love, with non-tariff barriers-to-entry that were never dreamed of in the days when “Free To Choose” was dominating our television screens and our bestsellers’ lists.

Today, an American seeking to sell most products into the European market must appoint an Authorized Representative in Europe, file for CE Mark approval of every model number, spend the money to redo his tooling to mold the EU codes and approval logos into his product, and comply with outrageous constraints on the materials he uses, both for product and packaging alike.

Our Founding Fathers never dreamed that our trading partners would create such things as the CE Mark in Europe and the SASO program in the Middle East, or such regulatory beasts as RoHS, REACH, and PFAS. You simply can’t call it a free market – no matter where the tariffs are set – when your products can’t even enter an ally’s country without years of effort, hundreds of thousands of dollars in tooling changes, applications, and permit fees, and an army of regulatory consultants.

And what of China, which over the past forty years has grown to be the world’s manufacturing behemoth? Do we have free trade with Mainland China?

China has put whole American and European industries out of business through the use of dumping programs (government subsidies to enable companies to sell below cost until they wipe out their competition in the target country). China has used every financial tool -- currency manipulation, government partnerships, and subsidies -- to take much of the world’s manufacturing from both the Western world and the low-cost countries of the rest of the world.

China requires that all foreign businesses operating in China are either literally or effectively joint ventures with the Chinese government – and therefore the Chinese military. Everything that happens in China serves the politburo in Beijing, whether consciously or not. And intellectual property rights are a joke there, no matter what assurances a Western manufacturer proudly works into his purchasing contracts.

And as if that weren’t enough, China has taken the place of the USSR in spreading its tentacles across the globe.

Oh, they do it differently – contracting as a service-provider to operate ports, mines, logistics centers, laboratories, workers’ apartment buildings, and more, rather than just sending in military advisors to foment revolution, as Stalin and Brezhnev did.

But the end result is the same; China has footholds all over the world, often situated at or near key military locations.

And even as China has taken over Hong Kong and threatened Taiwan -- even as it has claimed international waters as its own and engaged in saber-rattling with virtually all its neighbors across both land and sea – the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe all continue to do business in China, to buy from China, to sell to China, to entrust China with our very livelihood by inextricably linking our supply chains with China’s manufacturing centers.

Is this the situation that Reagan and Friedman foresaw when they cheered the value of free trade?

Or is it infinitely more likely that these great champions of Western Civilization and limited government, these solid anti-communists, would stare in shock at our current codependent, abusive, practically suicidal relationships with China and Europe, and ask us in horror if we’ve gone stark raving out of our minds to put up with such a status quo.

World War G: Trump’s Tariffs Aren’t Just Economics — They’re America’s Frontline Defense in the Globalist-Communist Hybrid War.

The reaction from the Left to President Donald Trump’s new tariff regime has been predictable. Like everything he does, this too will kill us all. Somehow.

It’s disturbing to see how many on the right are either in agreement with this knee jerk Leftist invective or express varying degrees of confusion. Some like this article from PJ Media seem to be hedging. The tariffs might work or they might not, they say:

“Being a wartime president is a high wire act. The PR battles matter greatly because your capacity to fight is limited by the electorate’s stomach for the mission. If you can’t sell the war, you’re probably not going to win it.

I get it. There’s a risk to this strategy. There’s a risk to every strategy, however. And what’s interesting about this editorial is the writer has hit very close to the mark by characterizing Trump as a “wartime” president. Though in the writer’s mind the “war” in question is a figurative trade war and not an actual war. A war war.

It’s not a trade war. It’s not figurative at all. This is war.

And we as a country have a very big problem if we haven’t figured this out by now. The People’s Republic of China has been waging what it calls “hybrid war” against our country for more than a decade.

That’s not the terminology used by China experts at some think tank or policy mavens in some Ivy League panel. China, that big land mass teeming with people just across the Pacific Ocean, calls it “hybrid war.” And they are waging that war specifically against the United States. Against us.

Hybrid war isn’t just an aggressive term the Chinese use to describe their trade policy. According to Col. John Mills, hybrid war is a form of warfare (not bartering) that fuses the military with the civilian. A strategy that is easy for China to implement because they are Communist and the state legally holds controlling shares in all its corporations. Every business entity is also a potential military entity. All of which can be bent towards the will of the Chinese state.

And they are. Not for mere financial gain. For war. Against us.

What does that mean?

It means they are actively working to destroy our culture, our government, our institutions, and our freedoms. And for a while there during the Biden administration, I wouldn’t have been surprised at all if the Stars and Stripes had been taken down in DC to be replaced by the red flag of Maoist China. It would’ve seemed somehow more fitting seeing as at the time, I was a jailed political dissident looking out on that same city from the DC prison.

But this is not the only conflict we are facing. We are also locked in a struggle with the West to save the West.

Kyle Shideler at the American Mind also invokes the concept of war when he talks about this in his article Cold Civil War Gone Global. The clunky phrasing parses together all the aspects of this conflict. It is a kind of civil war and it is also a cold war. And, for good measure, it’s gone global.

Shideler sees the outline of the conflict. America is locked in a kind of civil cold war which he describes as the increasingly volatile tensions between the “ruling class” and the “country class.” And when you see how the American ruling class is continually aided by, and aids, the ruling classes of European nations, our supposed allies, you have no choice but to interpret this collaboration as the awful unity that it is.

If British intelligence can help our CIA and FBI implement the Russiagate hoax, and if our USAID dollars prop up gatekeeper institutions like the BBC or Australian universities, then we are fools if we don’t conclude that the little plastic flags on the desks of those at MI5 and the CIA belie the fact that they are actually all on a single team that has nothing to do with their respective nation states. Or us, the citizens of those states.

If that sounds like an accusation of disloyalty or treason to you, that’s because it is. It means those unelected bureaucrats running the government show in DC have more common in with their counterparts in London or Brussels than they do with you and me here in the middle of suburban America.

They are part of a class of self-styled supra-national elites made delusional by their egos and thirst for money and power. They imagine themselves overlords of increasingly larger swaths of the planet.

They include among their ranks not just faceless power-mad in government but also members of the WEF, those in multinational corporations, financial institutions, “non-government” organizations, and other institutions like those of faith, education, and medicine.

The outlines of this transnational cabal have been blatant since the Covid days when countries around the world uniformly instituted lock downs of their citizenry, turning a trip to the grocery store into a government-controlled privilege as they tightened the screws of draconian vaccine mandates.

It was not just America where this happened. It was China. It was Europe. It was Asia. In other words, every place on the planet where this group of wealthy and powerful held what is in business called a “controlling interest.”

And yet, in my tiny town in the boonies of Texas people went shopping without masks, chuckling at the overreaction of the city folk. Those people in DC, in London, in Beijing, and in Brussels — they weren’t us. They thought they could tell us what to do. But we opted for more common sense measures.

Yet since the Covid fiasco, this conglomeration of petty tyrants has become much less careful about keeping their organization and collaboration under wraps.

Presumably, they’ve acknowledged that the cat has already been let out of the bag with Covid. So now they openly coordinate with each other doing things like sabotaging peace talks between Russia and Ukraine and coordinating a unified response to American tariffs.

We know who they are by their shared methods and goals. It’s no accident that all throughout the West nations are mimicking tactics in lawfare to suppress populist movements. In France, Marine Le Pen has been banned from politics.

Matteo Salvini of Italy escaped being prosecuted for the crime of upholding immigration law, Jair Bolsanaro of Brazil now cannot run until 2030. They actually jailed Calin Georgescu of Romania. And while our current president remains a fitting example of using judges to gatekeep politicians, a little-known J6er, Couy Griffin was actually barred from politics for life by a New Mexico state court which invoked a the Civil War era law against “insurrectionists.”

This transnational Deep State cabal have other shared prerogatives. Like mass immigration and Utopian fantasies about a borderless society, controlling people by censorship or limiting our food supply, weaponizing big data for use against the citizens, training weapons of warfare like drones and intelligence inward towards the very people such weapons were built to protect, and plying the population with massive amounts of pharmaceuticals as well as lethal illegal drugs like fentanyl.

They foment fear. They want us all afraid and yet perpetually tuned out on porn, drugs, or gambling. It’s bread and circuses for the 21st century. You’ll own nothing, eat bugs, spend your entire life never moving more than 15 minutes away, and you’ll be completely disenfranchised, faithless, and hopeless.

This is their shared Utopian vision. But who are “they”? When talking about bureaucrats, we call them “Deep State.” When talking about businesses they’re refereed to as “Globalists.” But they aren’t two different things. We’ve seen how they coordinate. They even take hits for each other when tactics demand it.

If you find their vision and ideals abhorrent you likely already think of all of them under the umbrella term “enemy.”

We are slowly coming to see the total shape of it. Author GK Chesterton plays with the concept that sometimes things can be hidden in plain sight because they are too big.

In one of his murder mysteries, the characters discovered that a victim’s head hadn’t been dashed in by a weapon but by something considerably larger, the Earth itself. The victim fell. We are in a similar situation. We see the trees but not the totality of the forest they comprise.

I argue that we have one more step in discerning the total nature of the enemy. Along with these Deep State and Globalist elements, we must acknowledge that the PRC is also involved on a very intricate level.

I’m not merely talking about the PRC’s normal routine of taking over countries through coercive business loans. The Cabal and the PRC both desire the fall of the West. They both desire the destruction of our culture and our freedoms.

Not to mention the fact that the ideas of Globalism itself is little more than Communism implemented through crony capitalism. The Chinese government, being Communist, is therefore thoroughly ideologically aligned. The Deep State, the Globalists, and the PRC are a single unitive entity. Not separate. But one.

Whether the Deep State/Globalist Cabal and the PRC are acting together as part of a coordinated alliance or it’s incidental that they only appear to be working together is irrelevant.

This isn’t a court hearing and we aren’t in the business of waiting for evidence of culpability. The fact of the matter is that there is profound synergy between the two. In ideology, tactics, and desired outcomes.

The whys, hows, and whats all match. Tactically speaking, that’s all the information we need to answer the question: Who is our enemy?

But we can’t coordinate effectively if we limit ourselves to overly long terms that are themselves practically narrative descriptions. If we talk about our struggle engaging the Deep State/Globalist PRC Cabal in the Hybrid Cold Civil War Gone Global we’ll spend more time talking than a blue-haired weirdo explaining their pronouns in detail.

Not to mention the fact that Aquinas said a sign of lower intelligence is the inability to see wholes and instead to break things down into increasingly smaller and detailed parts in order to comprehend something. I argue that there are too many parts to the phrase Hybrid Cold Civil War Gone Global against the Deep State/Globalist PRC Cabal.

So let’s refine the concept a bit. It’s a war. And we know it’s a global war. That makes it a world war. But it’s not a world war like the clash of nations in world wars one and two. There are elements that make it like a civil war and like a cold war too — a fact I pointed out in my article on Cold Terror.

In a nod to fiction, I think the best way to refine this conflict into something appropriately unique is to compare it to the zombie novel, World War Z. In that novel the world was engaged in a global asymmetrical battle against a plague of zombies. Whereas the enemy in World War Z were hordes of the undead, we are locked in a struggle against Tesla terrorists (and other actors) whose minds have been overthrown by the woke mind virus. To me, that’s close enough.

We swap out the letter, though. Instead of Z for zombies, we use G for Globalists. Not because we’re fighting solely against multinational corporations but because we’re fighting against a deceptive neo-Communist delusional elite, and that’s what Globalism is: a vehicle for implementing Communism.

World War G.

This is the battle of our time. Against an enemy that imprisons their political opponents, weakens Western culture and national sovereignty, and seeks to deprive us of our material possessions as well as our most precious possession of all: our freedoms.

The funny thing is, if you think back to what President Trump has been doing since he got into office — fighting the drug trade and human trafficking, bringing jobs back to America, negotiating the end of forever wars, shrinking government, disemboweling USAID and other government departments of questionable worth or dubious loyalty — he’s been fighting World War G all along.

It’s wrong that our president for the most part appears to fighting this battle alone. At the very least, his own party should be willing to lend more enthusiastic support. So many people just shake their heads at the tariffs. They worry about the political cost should the tariffs not pan out. But that’s extremely shortsighted when we consider the disturbing fact why they were necessary in first place.

What’s at stake isn’t just some polling for the next election. What’s at stake is the very lifeblood of America and, by extension, the West itself. It’s not that the tariffs might not work. It’s that they must work. We’re talking about a war here. It’s a war of everything against everything else. A war where every dime you spend, every word you write, every choice you make either works for our freedom or helps those actively trying to destroy it. We won’t win by pretending that it’s not happening.