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To: longnshort who wrote (1208379)	3/12/2020 9:58:35 AM
From: Sdgla	1 Recommendation Recommended By longnshort Respond to of 1573427

Prescient Trump… Posted on March 12, 2020 by sundance The level of media opposition and snark against President Trump is simply so ridiculous at this point there’s a desperation to it. So let us consider… From the outset of Donald Trump’s entry into the world of politics he espoused a series of key tenets around what he called his “America-First” objectives: The U.S. needed to have control over our borders, and a greater ability to control who was migrating to the United States. A shift toward stopping ‘illegal’ migration.The U.S. needed to stop the manufacture of goods overseas and return critical manufacturing back to the United States. A return to economic independence.The U.S. needed to decouple from an over-reliance on Chinese industrial and consumer products. China viewed as a geopolitical and economic risk. Donald Trump was alone on these issues. No-one else was raising them; no-one else was so urgently pushing that discussion. In 2015, 2016 and even 2017, no-one other than Trump was talking about how close we were to the dependence point of no return. Given the status of very consequential issues stemming from the Chinese Coronavirus threat; and the myriad of serious issues with critical supply chain dependencies; wasn’t President Trump correct in his warnings and proposals? In early 2017 President Trump and his administration coined the phrase: “economic security is national security”, and the economic team set about starting a very complex process to ensure the past three decades of trade policy was reversed. Continue reading ?