Americans are tired of being played for chumps, and Stephen Moore made the obvious point on Newsmax: President Trump is done tolerating countries that cheat our farmers and manufacturers while enjoying unfettered access to our market. It’s patriotic to demand fairness, not to apologize for standing up for American workers who have been sacrificed on the altar of globalist trade orthodoxy.
Moore called out Canada for charging punitive tariffs—sometimes over 100%—on American agricultural products, a slap in the face to any notion of honest free trade. If we truly have a free-trade zone in North America, it should not be a one-way street where U.S. producers get hammered while foreign markets stay closed.
Tariffs are a tool, not a sin, and Moore explained why using them as leverage can force real concessions and bring about freer, fairer trade for Americans. President Trump’s willingness to press other nations harder is exactly what’s needed to end the soft-on-foreign-cheating, hard-on-American-workers approach that’s dominated Washington for decades.
Let’s be clear: the United States is the largest consumer market on earth, and Moore is right that smaller countries can’t win a tit-for-tat showdown with us without losing far more. That reality gives America the bargaining power to demand reciprocity and to protect our industries and families from unfair competition.
Of course the usual suspects—globalist bureaucrats, trade elites, and their mouthpieces in the Big Media and the Democratic Party—will scream about “protectionism” and pretend our farmers and factory workers don’t matter. But patriots know that defending American prosperity is not protectionism, it’s common-sense governance: put America first, and let other countries decide if they want to play fair or be shut out.
This is about more than tariffs; it’s about restoring respect for American labor, sovereignty, and the rule that trade must be reciprocal. Working-class Americans deserve leaders who will fight for them, and Steve Moore’s straight talk on Newsmax is a reminder that strength and fair trade go hand in hand.
