{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"TinfoilHatsMatter","title":"What Trump Got Right","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1800,"description":"Episode 004 — What Trump Got Right\nShow Notes\nThe Episode\nFor thirty years, the bipartisan economic establishment promised America a deal: send the factories overseas, and something better will come back. The workers would upskill. The towns would reinvent themselves. The invisible hand would sort it out.\nThe invisible hand sorted out 6.7 million manufacturing jobs. The towns got opioid distributors. The workers got a pamphlet about retraining. And the people who designed the policy got consulting retainers, board seats, and speaking fees.\nThis episode names the names.\nWe trace the deliberate, documented, decades-long dismantling of American manufacturing — from Nixon and Kissinger's 1972 opening of China, through George H.W. Bush's quiet rehabilitation of Beijing after Tiananmen, to Bill Clinton's decision to make China's WTO accession his top second-term priority while calling it \"a hundred-to-nothing deal for America.\" We look at Hillary Clinton's six years on the Walmart board while Walmart was secretly sourcing from China through a shell company — during their own \"Buy American\" ad campaign. We look at Jack Welch, who turned offshoring into a corporate religion and got called Manager of the Century for it.\nAnd we make the uncomfortable case that on this one issue — manufacturing, market access, and what America traded away — Donald Trump was pointing at a real thing.\nWhat We Cover\nComparative advantage — why David Ricardo's 200-year-old theory sounds elegant on a whiteboard and falls apart when it touches actual human beings in actual towns\nThe China trade opening — from Nixon's 1972 visit through the systematic bipartisan accommodation of Beijing across five presidencies\nHenry Kissinger — architect of the China opening, founder of Kissinger Associates (1982), operator of China Ventures, and the most conflict-of-interest-adjacent \"disinterested statesman\" in American history\nGeorge H.W. Bush and Tiananmen — the secret Scowcroft/Eagleburger mission to Beijing...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/-glpmAsVCFY-EfsGN-A8fxw_UdMIBMxTpkR5sEYti4c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zOGM0/ZDE4YTI4MGE1Y2U4/YjRhMTA4NWQyZDY2/MDIxMC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}