America First means America first. President Donald Trump’s audacious trade and tariff gamesmanship is about scrapping the rotting hulks of two eras. In so doing, Trump seeks to inaugurate a new era -- a new American century. The principal beneficiaries? Us. But the world benefits, too.

China is more than a competitor. It’s an adversary. It wants to replace the U.S. as the globe’s dominant power. Who wants Beijing carrying the big stick? Monied interests don’t care. That’s U.S. businesses with facilities or ties to China and Wall Street investors. Sweatshop and slave labor have been very, very good to them. Wall Street, in particular, wants to keep the status quo. The markets have been volatile lately, indicating investor uncertainty. But the price of maintaining the status quo harms American workers and national security. Trump, a natural born fighter, is fighting for change.

Always the artist of deals, Trump means to fix America and boost its global standing. Thank the nation’s socially inbred establishment for Uncle Sam’s predicament. Its ideas and leadership are toxic. Chris Van Hollen playing kissy-kissy with an MS-13 gangbanger? Jane Fonda’s DNA is spread around.

Trump wants to terminate the establishment’s dominance with extreme prejudice. Trump is right -- again. Deposing the elite and reviving America and resetting its course, domestically and abroad, are imperatives.

Whittling down China, Trump’s principal weapons are trade policy and tariffs. If the president wins, the U.S. emerges as the shaper of the rest of the 21st century.

Corporate media won’t tell you, but China is in big trouble. China’s vulnerability, which Trump seeks to exploit, is outlined by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge. Says Durden, while U.S. and Western pols fudge about their economies’ performances to boost their election chances, Xi and his mafioso lie about China’s economy for something more serious.

Wrote Durden on April 22:

[I]n China, lying about the........

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