
Every so often, an article rolls off the liberal press so dripping with deception that it demands a public rebuke—and a public notice. This week’s entry comes from Daniel B. Klein, a university economist, and Ryan Bourne, a think tank fellow, who argue in Donald Trump Should Fight Globalism, Not Globalization, that we must embrace so-called “free trade” while opposing globalism.
At first glance, it sounds clever—pretending that globalization is simply about economic freedom, while globalism is something altogether different. But dig deeper, and the mask falls off. This isn’t an honest distinction; it’s a bait-and-switch straight out of the globalist playbook.
This is exactly how the globalist system works: prop up credentialed academics, dress them up in the cloak of neutral expertise, and then unleash them through puppet media outlets to levy false claims designed to confuse the uninformed and keep the gullible left locked into Trump-derangement syndrome, rather than see the obvious truths hidden in plain sight.
They mildly acknowledge that globalism is evil while attempting to rebrand it under a grossly false Trojan Horse premise. Let’s clear this up.
Klein and Bourne claim that opposing globalization leads to “needless tariffs, higher consumer prices, and reduced innovation.” Really? They conveniently omit the destructive results, especially the human cost: the immoral exploitation slave wages and child labor in dictatorial and socialist nations—nations that use “free trade” as a weapon to destroy both American industry and global human dignity.
Let’s be clear: “Free trade” without righteous governance isn’t freedom at all. It’s exploitation. It’s children and uneducated, impoverished adults working in sweatshops and killing fields for pennies a day while globalist corporations pad their profits—all while hardworking Americans, the industries that built this nation, and countless small businesses and entrepreneurs are priced out of the market by unethical, immoral competition.
This isn’t capitalism. This isn’t liberty. This is economic tyranny, masquerading in the language of globalist lies.
Klein and Bourne even have the audacity to claim that globalization “has lifted billions out of poverty.” What they fail to mention is the rise of a global slave economy—and the intentional gutting of America’s industrial backbone.
In other words, “free trade” leads to the collapse of small-town economies and entrepreneurship worldwide, while strengthening mega-corporations beholden not to God, nor to free citizens, but to anti-Christian globalist elites who aim to destabilize the US and strip Judeo-Christian morality and ethics from the public discourse.
When you trade freely with nations that crush freedom at home, you don’t spread liberty—you strengthen tyranny. When you let dictators set the price of labor, you don’t create opportunity—you create injustice.
The Word of God could not be clearer:
“A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is His delight” (Proverbs 11:1).Righteous trade demands righteous standards—not blind worship of cheap imports and crooked global alliances. And to Daniel B. Klein and Ryan Bourne: if you’re bold enough to write it, gentlemen, be bold enough to answer the moral rot at the heart of your economic theory. We’re not buying it.