02/23/2025
The whole world—grudgingly, with a sideways glance—acknowledges that globalization (Hi, Margaret Thatcher! Hi, Reagan! Hi, Peter Sutherland!) has benefited the United States more than any other country. Yet, the economic rise of the Asian Tigers, Japan, Latin America, China, and parts of Africa after the advent of a globalized production system is undeniable.
I had the privilege of meeting and learning from a pioneer of outsourcing, someone who embodied the global economy in action. His life experience and his family’s contributions to this country taught me invaluable lessons.
The U.S. adapted swiftly to the new world order, dominating global production and expanding its cultural influence—turning the dollar and the English language into economic standards. Investment surged, production costs plummeted, services expanded, and domestic trade flourished.
But not everything could be outsourced. The solution? Immigrants. They filled labor gaps, worked for years, then returned home—often without retirement pensions or social security benefits. A cheap, disposable workforce. That’s why immigration laws haven’t been meaningfully updated in 40 years.
Everyone knows this.
Does Trump?
What exactly is he trying to do?
Dismantle a system that benefits the U.S. more than any other nation?
Drive up prices, fuel inflation, and provoke trade retaliation?
Shrink the profits of American companies abroad?
Turn the U.S. into a global pariah?
Or maybe his plan is even worse:
Expel 14 million workers.
Spend $90 billion on a mass deportation effort.
Lose $450 billion in tax revenue.
Drain $50 billion annually from Social Security.
Undermine $1.7 trillion of U.S. GDP.
What do Trump and his circle actually want?
To destroy a geopolitical strategy that has worked since World War II?
What’s wrong with these people?
There’s only one answer: They don’t care about the country, the American people, or national interests. They want everything for themselves.
Trump is the greatest danger this nation faces today.
Jose Afonso
