More invalid anti-trump rhetoric

On reading an article by Mr Robert Tracinski in The Federalist, I was impressed by his ability to twist what Mr Trump has said to put a negative spin on his words. It was done so smoothly that one could very easily miss the purposeful misdirection. For one thing, Mr Tracinski made the comment that Trump is proposing that there be a 35 % tax imposed on all imports. Please be aware of that statement, ALL IMPORTS. If you actually listen to what Trump is proposing then you can easily see that this misdirection is entirely wrong and intended to lay the groundwork for Mr Tracinski’s following accusations. What Trump is actually proposing is that any AMERICAN COMPANY that proposes moving their DOMESTIC MANUFACTURING out of the U.S. should have to pay consequences in the form of a 35% tax ON THEIR IMPORTS which were PREVIOUSLY MADE in America. Every other country in the world levies fees and/or distributes government incentives to companies in order to protect their domestic manufacturing jobs. If we put our companies in an inferior bargaining position in the world market, that is not free trade, it is stupidity.

Then Mr Tracinski deliberately misinterprets other statements made by Mr Pence and Trump regarding the ‘free market’. Mr Pence states that America has losing in the market place. Anyone with a grain of intelligence that has listened to Trump knows that he has repeated many times that America is ‘losing in the marketplace’ because of stupid trade agreements that cripple American businesses ability to compete. Mr Tracinski misdirects the reader into believing that Mr Pence and Trump are saying that the free market fails ‘every time’. That is totally wrong. What they are saying is that the incompetents have set up trade agreements that screw America EVERY TIME.