Tariffs, Trade, and the Adjusting of America’s Capitalist System

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Published: 05 April 2025

Tariffs, Trade, and the Adjusting of America’s Capitalist System

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The world is in a trade war, according to the left and the libertarian right. Furthermore, this odd couple tells us that this will be detrimental to American society. They add that it will lead to inflation. These arguments are deeply flawed. These premises presented against Donald J. Trump’s tariff implementations reflect static analysis, romanticized faulty interpretations, and political posturing.

Upon the conclusion of World War II, the U.S. began a course of subsidizing the economies of war-torn Europe and Asia. Supporting the importing of goods from these inflicted countries was viewed as a way to build strong democracies and stabilize the globe. Thus, a slow, but sure path of wealth transfer began from the U.S. to these regions. An international division of labor was set up, and it seemed to go hand in hand with the idea that globalized capitalism would benefit everyone. Americans would get products cheaper, and West Europeans and Asians from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong (then tied to the U.K.), and Singapore would build an industrial base.

The evil of communism proliferated after the Second World War. The U.S., lacking the necessary foresight and believing that capitalism was a cure-all, decided to underwrite the transition of a centrally planned socialist economy to a market-compliant, politically controlled socialist economy in China. During the Third Plenary Session of the 11^th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in 1978, Deng Xiaoping defended Marxism-Leninism, evoked Karl Marx’s emphasis on “revolutionary practice,” and Lenin’s New Economic Policy, and launched the structure of "socialism with Chinese characteristics." The U.S. believed that what it perceived as having worked in Western Europe and non-communist Asia, could be applied to Chinese communism, and democracy would spring up.

 

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Published: 19 March 2025

The U.S. Needs an International Media Outlet

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By signing the Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy executive order on Friday, March 14, 2025, President Donald J. Trump appears to have knocked out seven agencies. One of them was the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM). The action argues that it seeks the “reduction” of portions inside the federal bureaucracy that the executive branch may deem “unnecessary.” It remains unknown whether this action is to be permanent or a renovation of the institution. For the sake of reverting cultural socialism and globalism at home and abroad, one of the administration's stated objectives, let us hope it is the latter.

The USAGM is a self-governing agency of the U.S. government responsible for broadcasting news and information in nearly 50 languages, reaching approximately 361 million individuals weekly. For Fiscal Year 2025, the agency requested a total budget of $950 million to support its operations and capital investments. These encompass various media outlets like Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (Radio Marti), Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN), and the Open Technology Fund. Its reach encompassed many areas pivotal to American interests, as well as the cause of liberty. Among these places are Cuba, China, North Korea, Iran, and Russia. 

 

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Published: 03 March 2025

Remembering Lincoln Díaz-Balart

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Cuba is in mourning. This has become an all too familiar reality, as so many of her sons and daughters pass away without seeing a free Cuba. On this occasion, the reason for the sorrow is the death of former Florida congressman Lincoln Díaz-Balart. At 70 years of age and in full intellectual capacity, the passing of this iconic figure will forever leave a void in Cuban politics. His 24 years in elected public service, particularly 18 of those years representing Miami districts in the U.S. House of Representatives, left a seminal legacy.

Known for his brilliant thinking and eloquence, Lincoln, as he was more commonly referred to in Miami, drew inspiration from his father, Rafael Díaz-Balart, arguably among the Cuban Republic’s most articulate and cultured group of people. Cuba’s quest for freedom and democracy and how the U.S. has responded possibly cannot point to a single person who has had greater influence in charting its course. Convinced, rightfully so, that depriving the Castro-Communist regime of funds is pivotal in stifling its ability to repress and stay in power, he masterminded the codification into law of the U.S. embargo against the island’s Marxist-Leninist dictatorship. 

 

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Published: 15 February 2025

How the Administrative State Is Being Dismantled

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President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is an intricate part of his commanding mandate. While not exactly a federal departmental agency per se, its function as a temporary advisory entity is ladened with lawful powers drawn from the executive branch.  These structures have been commonplace in U.S. politics and are consistent with historical precedence. DOGE’s task has been labeled as that of a master auditor searching for waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal bureaucracy, which largely composes the administrative state, or Deep State, as some would prefer to call it considering the enduring static nature. Elon Musk, somewhat of a polymath, was chosen to lead this executive body.

Woodrow Wilson, in 1916, appears to be the first U.S. president to create a non-permanent advisory entity, which he called the Council of National Defense. Its purpose was to coordinate resources as America prepared to enter World War I. Every single American president since Wilson, without exception, has made use of these temporary advisory boards or commissions in one manner or another. The rationale behind this remains to have external experts, typically serving the president and nation on an ad honorem basis, weigh in on the specific assignment at hand and render opinions and recommendations. The constitutional authority extended to the executive branch affords these temporary advisory agencies the power and legitimacy to have a high level of access to privileged and confidential information and data. This is the case directly or through permanent executive agencies that have security clearances. 

 

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