As former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper says in this most recent PragerU video, it took a shift in the political landscape over many decades for the voters in the U.S. to realize that all of the globalization of our economy was not working for them.
NAFTA, the Paris Accords, and efforts to address the perceived threats of climate change, all demonstrated that a Americans were getting the "short end of the stick". Globalization had taken advantage of our prosperity, and left us in a condition that was forcing us to be dependent on an ever growing federal bureaucracy of food stamps, and unemployment subsistence which created a climate of frustration and angst.
He also describes how the globalization process, which began during the Bill Clinton administration, created two types of workers; the Anywheres and the Somewheres. So, those who had gone to colleges - especially the Ivy League type - through their network of family and club associates got jobs in large international corporations. Those who didn't fell into the category of worker who found themselves subject to limiting conditions; federal regulations on their businesses, industry leaving the country to cheaper labor abroad, etc.
I believe, however, there are of factors which also had equal impact on the outcome of the 2016 election, which Harper didn't address in his five minute video presentation. While former Prime Minister Harper, from an economic standpoint is spot on with his points, he is being a typical politician by not mentioning other key issues which play into this scenario that contributed to Trump's win against Clinton.
We had seen our politicians repeatedly tell us one thing, then do either nothing, or another thing, ie: immigration reform, to cite the major issue now coming to a head. The citizenry slowly became savvy to this. Coupled with the history of the opposition candidate - Hillary Clinton - the events which occurred during her tenure as Secretary of State (Benghazi), and the revelations during the presidential campaign by Wikileaks and her email server scandal, the voters were finally fed up. Liking what Trump was saying as an outsider of the Washington, D.C. elite, many held their nose while voting for him against their ideological loyalty.
Harper correctly then boils it down to the point that it is the reality of nations, not the concept of global organizations, the voting pubic awoke to realizing was negatively impacting their ability to live prosperously. Trump recognized this. Harper also deserves credit in saying we must maintain a balanced view of trade, market economics, globalization, and immigration while keeping the consumers the priority of our policies regarding those issues.
Now, after two years of the federal investigation producing not one actual bit of evidence proving that Trump's campaign was acting in any way with Russia, or Vladimir Putin, to "fix" the election - in fact there has been a mountain of evidence that the investigation against Trump was fake and initiated by the Clinton campaign and the DNC - combined with the results Pres. Trump has produced for the working men and women of the nation, it has become obvious that their instincts were correct.
Yet, the attitude of the left is one of a toddler, throwing a temper tantrum, to falsely accuse and disrupt the president's agenda at every turn. And now, Clinton is once again, reportedly still entertaining the notion that she might yet run a third time in 2020. If I give her any positive remarks, it would have to be that she is so power hungry and driven to be in control, she will not let go!
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