Victor Davis Hanson: "You Won’t Believe What Comes Next..."

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Trade Strategy Is Working—and the World Knows It

Is Trump about to flip the global trade game on its head? Victor Davis Hanson says yes—and explains how. In this explosive breakdown, Hanson exposes how Trump’s high-stakes “zero tariffs or nothing” poker strategy is forcing powerful nations to rethink their trade games. Countries like Japan, South Korea, and even our “friends” in Canada and Mexico have been quietly exploiting U.S. markets with hidden tariffs, VAT taxes, and unfair deals—until now.

Trump’s genius, according to Hanson, is knowing when to strike. If he gets one major player to fold and accept parity, the dominoes will fall. Suddenly, every country scrambling to maintain access to the U.S. market will be racing to the table. But while Trump fights for reciprocity, entrenched elites and “free trade forever” economists scream panic. Why? Because they’ve spent 50 years defending a system that’s enriched the top 10%—while hollowing out the middle class.

Hanson argues that Trump isn’t just going after bad deals—he’s building an entirely new industrial vision, enlisting the likes of Musk, Sachs, and even Bezos in a kind of Silicon Valley war production board for the 21st century. If he's right, America’s next boom won’t come from Wall Street—it’ll come from factories powered by tech, automation, and national willpower. This isn’t protectionism—it’s a patriotic reset. And it just might work.