Trump update 2/21/2016..Get ready America. Your country is going to be "great again" in T-minus 9 months

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Trump: Finally, The Acceptance Comes… And The Gloating

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-21/trump-finally-acceptance-comes-and-gloating

On Saturday night, all doubts about whether Donald Trump was a serious contender for the White House were erased.

That’s not to say he’s locked up the nomination.

But with last night’s decisive victory in South Carolina, Trump served notice that this is no longer a matter of whether he can make a serious run at the presidency, it’s now a matter of whether Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio can mount a serious challenge.

As was the case in New Hampshire, Trump came into last night’s primary as the runaway favorite. Still, the political punditry (not to mention the GOP establishment) was incredulous and seemed to think that the electorate would “come to its senses” at the last minute and cast their votes for Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio or at the very least for Ted Cruz who isn’t exactly popular with the GOP elite, but at least he’s not telling stories about executing Muslims with bullets dipped in pig’s blood.

No dice. Trump “schlonged” the rest of the field and it’s looking more and more like the unthinkable will soon become reality.

Donald Trump – with his Mexican border wall, Muslim ban, and red, “Make America Great Again” baseball cap in tow – is about to secure the Republican nomination, in what amounts to the surest sign yet that public sentiment no longer bears any resemblance to establishment politics.

Against that backdrop, have a look at the following graphic which shows that while nearly three quarters of GOP voters couldn’t see themselves supporting Trump for the nominaiton last March, the tables have completely turned with nearly the same number now saying they could indeed envision supporting the controversial billionaire.

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user92183/imageroot/2016/02/09/TrumpVoters_0.png

……………….Get ready America. Your country is going to be “great again” in T-minus 9 months.

Pat Buchanan: Donald Trump Is Right on Trade

http://buchanan.org/blog/trump-is-right-on-trade-124822

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Republican hawks are aflutter today over China’s installation of anti-aircraft missiles on Woody Island in the South China Sea.

But do these Republicans, good free-traders all, realize their own
indispensable role in converting an indigent China into the mighty and
menacing power that seeks to push us out of Asia?

Last year, China ran up the largest trade surplus in history, at our
expense, $365 billion. We exported $116 billion in goods to China. China
exported $482 billion worth of goods to us.

Using Census Bureau statistics, Terry Jeffrey of CNSNEWS.com
documents how Beijing has, over decades, looted and carted off the
greatest manufacturing base the world had ever seen.

In 1985, China’s trade surplus with us was a paltry $6 million. By
1992, when some of us were being denounced as “protectionists” for
raising the issue, the U.S. trade deficit with China had crossed the $10
billion mark.

In 2002, it crossed the $100 billion mark. In 2005, the $200 billion
mark. In each of the last four years, Communist China has run an annual
trade surplus at the expense of the United States in excess of $300
billion.

Total trade deficits with China in the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama era?
$4 trillion. Total U.S. trade deficit in 2015 — $736 billion, 4 percent
of our GDP.

To understand why Detroit look as it does, while the desolate
Shanghai Richard Nixon visited in ’72 is the great and gleaming
metropolis of 2016, look to our trade deficits.

They also help explain America’s 2 percent growth, her
deindustrialization, her shrinking share of the world economy, and the
stagnation of U.S. wages as manufacturing jobs are replaced by service
jobs.

Those trade deficits also explain the rise of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump.

Yet, with the exception of Trump, none of the GOP candidates seems
willing to debate, defend or denounce the policies that eviscerated
America — and empowered the People’s Republic.

Workers, however, know what our politicians refuse to discuss.

They are being sold out for the benefit of corporate elites who pay
off those politicians with the big cash contributions that keep the
parties flush.

Politicians who play ball with Wall Street and K Street know they
will be taken care of, if they are defeated or when they retire from
public office, so long as they have performed.

Free trade is not a zero-sum game. The losers are the workers whose
jobs, factories and futures are shipped abroad, and the dead and dying
towns left behind when the manufacturing plants shut down.

America is on a path of national decline because, while we have been
looking out for what is best for the “global economy,” our rivals have
been looking out for what is best for their own nations.

Consider OPEC, which is reeling from the oil price collapse. Russia
is colluding with Saudi Arabia and Iraq to cut production to firm up the
market and prevent prices from falling further.

This is pure price fixing, but we all understand self-interest.

What might a U.S. national-interest-based trade policy look like?

Controlling the largest market on earth, we might impose on foreign
producers a cover charge, an admissions fee, a tariff, to get into our
market.

Example: Impose a 20 percent tariff on foreign cars entering the USA.
This might raise the cost of a Lexus or Mercedes produced and assembled
abroad from $50,000 to $60,000.

However, if Lexus or Mercedes buys or makes all their parts in the
USA and assembles all their cars here, no tariff. Their cars could still
sell for $50,000. This would be a powerful incentive to shift
production here. As an added incentive, all tariff revenue could be used
to reduce or eliminate corporate taxes in the USA.

Between the Civil War and World War I, under Republicans, the U.S.
became the world’s greatest industrial power and a wholly
self-sufficient nation. How? We taxed foreign goods entering the United
States, but did not tax the profits of U.S. companies or the incomes of
U.S. workers.

The difference between economic patriots and globalists who inhabit
corporate-funded think tanks and public policy institutes is that the
latter think of what is best for their corporate benefactors and the
global economy. The former put America and Americans first.

Academics revere Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Richard Cobden.

But none of them ever built a great nation. Patriots look to
Alexander Hamilton and those post-Civil War Republicans who built the
greatest national industrial powerhouse the world had ever seen.

Indeed, what great nation did free trade ever build?

As father of a united Germany, Chancellor Bismarck said, when he
decided to build Germany on the American and not the British model, “I
see that those countries which possess protection are prospering, and
that those countries which possess free trade are decaying.”

So it is true today. Unfortunately, it is America, now wedded to the fatal dogma of free trade, that is decaying.