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September 22, 2024 | By Sundance

Mike Rowe brought Victor Davis Hanson onto his podcast for an interview to discuss Class Warfare as contrast against the 2024 election stakes. The impetus for the interview was an article written by VDH a few months ago about the shift in the American electorate

As 8 billion people started being able to purchase the goods and services of a small American group of entrepreneurs, all focused heavily inside the tech and finance sector, the people who owned wealth shifted dramatically. Decades later, against the backdrop of globalism, the issue surfaces as the industrialists (Main Street corps) offshored their manufacturing, while the tech industrialists (Muscular Wall Street) started to be the wealthiest people in the USA as a result of selling their tech products to the world.

Within the discussion, the academically disposed VDH points out empirical data that bolsters his theories and analysis. Rowe is in general agreement as they both discuss the granular consequences. However, there is one fascinating part (prompted below) where VDH accurately identifies conservative economic hero Milton Friedman as one of the early globalist villains.

VDH is correct when he says that Friedman was a rabid open borders advocate, who had no issue with lowered wages for U.S. workers and embraced the global system of manufacturing which led to a destroyed U.S industrial base creating the Rust Belt. Few people on the conservative side of politics will ever admit how Milton Friedman was the original Bush-class economist. It’s good to see VDH set the record straight.

Keep in mind, Milton Friedman was vociferously against tariffs of any kind. Friedman believed once the entire world was connected, all prices and economies would equalize. The pain felt within the American economy was simply something that had to be endured until American wealth was distributed and the entire world was balanced.

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Made in America

PAT R I C K J. B U C H A N A N

Tariffs Made America Great

https://www.addisonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/Tariffs%20Made%20America%20Great.pdf

“William McKinley, the veteran of An-
tietam who gave his name to the McKin-
ley Tariff, declared four years before being
elected president: “Free trade results in
our giving our money…our manufactures
and our markets to other nations. …It will
bring widespread discontent. It will revo-
lutionize our values.”