The End of the Free Lunch For decades, America’s been the chump in the global trade casino—open borders for goods, hollowed-out factories, and a working class fed opioids and Netflix. China, India, Vietnam, and a parade of tariff-happy nations stacked the deck, while D.C. elites called it “free trade.” Trump just flipped the table. Starting April 5, every single import gets hit with a 10% baseline tariff. Then comes the scalpel: 49% on Cambodia, 54% on China, and so on. No more begging Brussels or bowing to Beijing. It’s brute force reciprocity—finally. While the press cries “trade war,” ask yourself this: how is it “retaliation” when we’re matching what they’ve been doing to us for years? Bessent’s Hidden War on…
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