President Trump said, “Our country has been looted, pillaged, raped, and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike.” After marinating in that concept in the wee hours, I realized something: Globalism is not an ideology. It’s not actually about “rules-based international order,” borderless utopias, or saving the planet. That’s the fig leaf. (Just look how fast they sprang to defend borders when Trump mentioned annexing Canada and Greenland.)

Trump gets it, and now I do, too. ‘Globalism’ is much simpler than we thought—and even uglier, if that’s possible. It’s all about money. It’s a global grift. Its entire goal is to preserve a rigged trade system, where the United States charges no tariffs, but every other country can slap tariffs, VAT taxes, currency manipulation, and non-tariff barriers on American goods. That’s it. That’s the whole scam. It’s not about international harmony.

It’s about keeping the U.S. market wide open (the “open borders”) while everyone else plants automated toll booths all along their borders.

Do see how that lopsided, asymmetric dynamic —no tariffs on US foreign trade but unlimited barriers to US goods— creates unlimited possibility for profit by insider élites who understand how to game the scam? It’s all designed for parasitic globalists to leech blood from ailing American taxpayer hosts and swank around Europe on our dime.

To disguise the grift, they put on a show. The show is called “globalism.” The show’s plot consists of very expensive leftwing demands that always deplore an imminent crisis and demand billions of dollars. See, e.g., climate change.

And America always foots the bill. America’s working class, that is. The suckers.

So far, we’ve learned there are (at least) two different ways the swarms of globalist mosquitos have been parasitically draining our essence. One way was through NGOs. Trump cut that snakey head off first, and we’ve been watching the fallout with terrific enthusiasm. Most recently, Trump shuttered the ridiculous “Institute for Peace,” whose peaceful accountants frantically deleted their databases while DOGE was outside on the sidewalk. (Fortunately, DOGE recovered the data.) The IFP’s databases showed shocking theft of public money to pay for elite luxuries, many of them foreigners, all laundered through the “institute’s” quasi-independence.

The second vector of parasitic infection is this lopsided tariff situation. Trump recognized that informed elites are enriching themselves while the rest of us become increasingly anemic. They were this close to killing the host. Trump’s made it clear he means to turn it all around. “I don’t blame these other countries at all for this calamity. I blame former presidents and past leaders who weren’t doing their job,” he said.

It was our only point of disagreement. Unlike President Trump, I do blame other countries — as well as former presidents and past leaders who sold us out. Trump was just saying, you can’t blame the hustler if you let them steal from you...Jeff Childer C&C