As a non-Trump supporter, I have to say, this was an impressive interview. And kudos to The Orange Man for forcefully injecting these issues back into the body politic, or at least, allowing people like Lighthizer, Navarro, and Ross (the first two Democrats) to alter the political discourse and open new avenues of policy. Like Pompeo and…
As a non-Trump supporter, I have to say, this was an impressive interview. And kudos to The Orange Man for forcefully injecting these issues back into the body politic, or at least, allowing people like Lighthizer, Navarro, and Ross (the first two Democrats) to alter the political discourse and open new avenues of policy. Like Pompeo and Jared Kushner with the Abraham Accords and the new assertion of antimonopoly action against Big Tech by William Barr, this was an out-of-script break with dogmatically held but nonetheless failed or discredited ideas and policies. Watch the media flounder and lie about it.
My largest reservation about Trump's approach, and Pompeo must be aware of it, is that Trumps treated long-time allies the same rough way he treated China. Trump himself was in awe of Xi and largely tone-deaf to the collective geopolitical aspects. He looks at it too narrowly, from his America First p.o.v., and excludes valuable allies who could be marshalled and reassembled into a functional alliance against China. That still hasn't happened yet. Trump clearly needed it, yet was at the same time blind to what it would take.
As a non-Trump supporter, I have to say, this was an impressive interview. And kudos to The Orange Man for forcefully injecting these issues back into the body politic, or at least, allowing people like Lighthizer, Navarro, and Ross (the first two Democrats) to alter the political discourse and open new avenues of policy. Like Pompeo and Jared Kushner with the Abraham Accords and the new assertion of antimonopoly action against Big Tech by William Barr, this was an out-of-script break with dogmatically held but nonetheless failed or discredited ideas and policies. Watch the media flounder and lie about it.
My largest reservation about Trump's approach, and Pompeo must be aware of it, is that Trumps treated long-time allies the same rough way he treated China. Trump himself was in awe of Xi and largely tone-deaf to the collective geopolitical aspects. He looks at it too narrowly, from his America First p.o.v., and excludes valuable allies who could be marshalled and reassembled into a functional alliance against China. That still hasn't happened yet. Trump clearly needed it, yet was at the same time blind to what it would take.