I am actually enjoying this: Friedman writhing in the first anti globalization administration Friedman, or any of his liberal international economic order bi partisan globalization cronies has ever faced.
Trump is the ugly, too late, unhelpful, unreasoned, frank, aggressive, paranoid, overboard American response to Friedman's brand of liberal flat world international economic order globalization. His represents the only kind of response a country set up like America could have made.
It is more wrong than the liberal economic globalization disease we ourselves promulgated, in the end after WWII, on ourselves and the West in the first place.
Trump can't really shut down globalization, at this point, without really getting into a major disastrous global war.
He wouldn't know how to do it, were it even still feasible, by other means, although he is trying some of them.
He struggles with other means: immigration, deportation, tariffs, bullying MNCs verbally and threat of adverse economic measures, etc.
Trust me, they won't work at this late date. War won't work either, much worse. Cul de sac.
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