Trump’s Been Dumped, But China Just Ate Our Lunch, So Much for MAGA

By Gage Skidmore

I have many good friends who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and still support his ideas even though they do admit that he lost the election.

I have always said to them, that all he had to offer them was superficial solutions to complex problems. It all sounded so nice especially with all that MAGA stuff he was selling. The problem is that in the real world superficial solutions generally don’t work.

One of the main arguments that these people offered me was that Trump was going to teach Red China a lesson. That by putting tariffs on them, they would eventually fold their game and that America would be great again, specifically because of his policies.

I explained to these friends that China had many other markets they could do deals with and they didn’t really need the USA no matter how big our debt was to them. My Trumper friends just wouldn’t hear it.

But Trump kept on barking his MAGA protectionist message while China made deals around the world especially in Asia and in the European Union. My friends continued to argue an empty message that Trump’s pressure on China would bring results. So what have we gotten from his program? More repression, concentration camps in China for Uighurs, and China has now moved into Hong Kong and abolished democracy…