What Trump Can Do with Clausewitz

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Posted on 12/20/2024 3:54:14 AM PST by MtnClimber

After the Napoleonic Wars, Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz wrote his seminal treatise, On War. Published in 1832, On War was not immediately recognized as the authoritative work it is today.

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I do not know if President Trump has ever read Clausewitz or heard of “center of gravity,” but he seems to instinctively understand the criticality of economy. He has pledged to bring the budget in line, create a better environment for business, and ensure America’s access to inexpensive energy. In this, he faces a Herculean task. The Democrats will fight savagely to stop him from achieving these goals. They will use all the tricks in their sorry playbook. They will lie. They will fear-monger. They will slander. Whatever it takes to stop President Trump from being successful, the Democrats will do.

For example, consider how Democrats are currently demagoguing tariffs. Suddenly, Democrats are free-traders. In their coordinated, talking-point manner, media pundits that tariffs will increase inflation. Where was their concern when Biden’s spending sent inflation into double-digits?

Frankly, predicting the effect of tariffs now is dubious at best, for a couple of reasons. First, no one knows what tariffs if any will be imposed, or on whom. Second, to claim that tariffs are un-American is ignorant. Tariffs are as American as apple pie. The United States maintained high tariffs through most of its first hundred and fifty years. In fact, one of the South’s grievances against the North prior to the Civil War was the U.S. tariff, which drove up the costs of English manufactured goods.

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1 posted on 12/20/2024 3:54:14 AM PST by MtnClimber

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2 posted on 12/20/2024 3:54:25 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)

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