All foreigners are out to screw us and it’s our job to screw them first

The quote was from John Connally in 1971. 

Trump is therefore not the first President to seek the controlled disintegration of the world economy by means of a devastating blow. Nor is he the first to purposely damage America’s allies to renew and prolong US hegemony. Nor the first who was prepared to hurt Wall Street in the short run in the process of strengthening US capital accumulation in the long term. Nixon had done all that half a century earlier.

Read: https://unherd.com/2025/04/will-liberation-day-transform-the-world/