Sunday Talks – Mike Rowe Interviews VDH
September 22, 2024 | Sundance |
(Really long article on economics and what Trump did to disrupt and make our economy work, read rest at link below)
Mike Rowe brought Victor Davis Hanson onto his podcast for an interview to discuss Class Warfare as contrast against the 2024 election stakes. The impetus for the interview was an article written by VDH a few months ago about the shift in the American electorate – SEE HERE.
Within the interview VDH walks through a summary of how a modern muscular tech industry replaced Mainstreet on the financial side of financial economics and American wealth. Essentially, how a small group of tech companies replaced the blue chip titans and industrialists on the global wealth scale.
As 8 billion people started being able to purchase the goods and services of a small American group of entrepreneurs, all focused heavily inside the tech and finance sector, the people who owned wealth shifted dramatically. Decades later, against the backdrop of globalism, the issue surfaces as the industrialists (Main Street corps) offshored their manufacturing, while the tech industrialists (Muscular Wall Street) started to be the wealthiest people in the USA as a result of selling their tech products to the world.
Within the discussion,the academically disposed VDH points out empirical data that bolsters his theories and analysis. Rowe is in general agreementas they both discuss the granular consequences. However, there is one fascinating part (prompted below) where VDH accurately identifies conservative economic hero Milton Friedman as one of the early globalist villains.
VDH is correct when he says that Friedman was a rabid open borders advocate, who had no issue with lowered wages for U.S. workers and embraced the global system of manufacturing which led to a destroyed U.S industrial base creating the Rust Belt.Few people on the conservative side of politics will ever admit how Milton Friedman was the original Bush-class economist. It’s good to see VDH set the record straight. WATCH:
https://youtu.be/k-bgX9eQ58w
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/09/22/sunday-talks-mike-rowe-interviews-vdh/