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President Donald Trump is destroying the global economy, according to the media, Democrats, Europeans, and libertarians. The stock market is crashing. His administration is randomly and arbitrarily imposing tariffs, they say. And his tariffs are on the verge of causing a self-destructive global trade war.
But policy should not be based on the daily movement of the stock market. The tariffs are not random or arbitrary but instead are based on a publicly released formula. And a trade war will lead to a much better outcome than the path Americans have been on.
So says @oren_cass , founder of the think tank @AmerCompass and one of the leading advocates of Trump’s nationalist economic policy.
Based on Cass’s resume, one would predict him to be a Never Trump Republican, not a MAGA Republican. He is a Harvard Law graduate who worked at Bain & Company and became the Domestic Policy Director for Mitt Romney at the shockingly young age of 29.
Romney, one of the most high-profile Never Trump Republicans, was also highly concerned with China. “I was working on trade policy for him and brought him the very standard, ‘Here's what a Republican says about trade’ starting point. And he said, ‘This is all fine. But what are we gonna do about China?’
“I remember the other economist was like, ‘What kind of question is that? We don't do anything about China.’ Romney was a very non-ideological, pragmatic guy with a business background. He said, ‘That's ridiculous. This is completely broken. What are we gonna do?’
“And I had the privilege of being sent off to find an answer for the candidate, at which point I discovered that the entire right-of-center ideological orthodoxy and the entire economics profession refused to engage with or think about this at all, even though it was a very real problem.”
In our conversation, Cass debunked claims that Trump’s tariffs were arbitrary and said they demonstrated bad faith on the part of the people claiming to have debunked them.
“My sense is that a deputy press secretary gave a confusing answer to a question,” Cass said. “The US Trade Representative's office has put out a whole detailed explanation of this, with the formula they used and the sources that they used. It's a PDF you can download from the US Trade Representative's website.
“If you're somebody whose goal is to just embarrass the administration and confuse people, then you find a confusing statement from a Deputy Press Secretary and say, ‘Oh, see, nobody knows what they're doing.’”
Cass pointed to people claiming it was strange for there to be tariffs on small nations.
“I think there has been a lot of very bad faith criticism and intentional pretend confusion for the sake of fomenting a narrative among people who should know a lot better,” he said. “One example of this is whatever random island that only has penguins on it that people are upset about. Like, ‘Oh, like why do they have a tariff rate for this island with these penguins on it?’
“The answer is because US trade policy is done through a very formal mechanism called the harmonized tariff schedule, which defines the exact set of territory for which you have to have tariff rates and the exact set of products for which you have to have tariff rates. And it's a very granular set of territories and it does have random islands and so forth as entries on the list. And so if you're going to then announce what the tariffs are by territory, you're gonna have something for the islands on the list, right?”
Another piece of misunderstanding Cass was on the idea of “reciprocal tariffs.
“There was certainly a communication challenge in calling them reciprocal tariffs,” said Cass, “which people understand to mean ‘Whatever they do to us, we do to them.’ We're sort of holding up a mirror. But there was plenty of messaging for a couple of months leading up to this that what they meant by reciprocal was more like proportional, that it was going to be in relation to the size of the imbalance that we have with the other countries. I wrote a long thing in February walking through what they seem to mean and how it might look.”
People are playing dumb, in other words. “They did a like, ‘We just can't figure this out. This must be some crazy mistake.’ It’s people who, politely, are not trying very hard to figure it out and are well-served by claiming it can't be figured out when, in, when in fact it can.”
Trump’s tariffs will likely bring back high-wage manufacturing jobs just like Reagan did when he demanded Japanese car companies manufacture in the U.S., explains Cass...
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NEW: Joe Rogan goes on an epic rant about Elon Musk and DOGE exposing billions in waste and corruption while natural disasters in Maui, North Carolina, and Los Angeles remain unresolved.
"People on the left are completely ignoring the rampant corruption and conflicts of interest. Don’t you think we have a serious problem with our massive deficit? Yet, we’re wasting billions of dollars every year on horse sh*t?"
"Elon hired DOGE wizards—like the guy who used AI to read the burnt scroll from Pompeii. These are exactly the kind of people you want digging into this stuff and that's why Elon got them. He knows what the f*ck he's doing."
"It's all so strange. You have this technology that allows people to express themselves online. Then you have this maniac billionaire who buys the biggest one and makes it the wild west again. And then you have government being exposed for what it is."
"We talked about the web of 50,000 NGOs that were all intertwined supporting liberal causes. They're finding out that it's this complicated propaganda network. That's not good for anybody left or right."
"To the people saying it's only $10 billion. What about the people in Maui? That could have been fixed for $5 billion. Instead of doing that, they are telling us we have to continue to fund these programs in foreign countries. What about America? What about our tax dollars helping people in Los Angeles or North Carolina?"
Democrats were the party of "reinventing government." Then, they decided to weaponize it. The reason Democrats today defend waste, fraud, and abuse, even at the expense of the separation of powers, is because their wealth and their ability to rule depend on it.
The US government ran large budget deficits to finance WW2 and then the Korean War. Eisenhower then came in and managed to cut spending, balance the budget for 4 of his 8 years, and still build the interstate highway system and undertake deportations. It can be done.
It's not just Politico. The Associated Press has been raking in millions of dollars in government money for years.
The AP's bias also makes perfect sense.