Elites Attack What They Don’t Understand

By Newt Gingrich

Opinion

USA –

When President Trump withdrew the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris Agreement, the elites could not see how breaking with these bad agreements could possibly be good for Americans.

After all, some of the Washington elites had helped draft these deals — which in the minds of the liberal media, meant these deals must be good.

When President Trump imposed direct trade measures on some foreign-made products, including solar panels, steel, and aluminum to protect US industries that were being undercut, the elites reflexively questioned his political-trade-foreign relations acumen. Seemingly, none of the them stopped to consider that President Trump’s decades of success in international business may provide him with an informed opinion and worldview which are simply counter to their own.

As we have seen President Trump make changes to his Cabinet and personal staff, the elites in Washington and the national media have insisted that these decisions are a sign of dangerous instability in the White House. Never mind that the best business leaders and managers routinely make tough staffing decisions to improve their organizations’ long-run initiatives or mission.

It seems the elites simply refuse to think about the Trump …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand