There are not many of them left, but imagine a 100-year-old survivor of Iwo Jima. He has seen in his lifetime the fall of Nazism, fascism, Japanese Imperialism and the Soviet Union.
He also remembered that after the war, America was the greatest land of all. Factories hummed. Each city had a specialty. Akron made tires. Detroit made cars. Pittsburgh made steel. Toledo made glass.
Most of that is gone now. Globalism shipped American jobs to Mexico and overseas in exchange for cheap stuff. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Red China swept in. Its plan to rule the world was stealth. It paid off the politicians and lured in the CEOs. It has racked up a $4 trillion trade surplus from the United States.
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