The sound you’re hearing from Washington’s economic establishment isn’t applause—it’s the deafening silence of experts who got it spectacularly wrong. Senator Bernie Moreno’s recent assessment that economic “experts” were “catastrophically wrong” about President Trump’s tariffs isn’t just political commentary; it’s a documented vindication of America First economics over globalist orthodoxy.
When Trump announced his tariff strategy, the usual suspects emerged from their think tanks and Federal Reserve offices with apocalyptic predictions. Inflation would soar, they warned. American consumers would suffer, they proclaimed. The economy would collapse under the weight of “protectionism,” they declared with the certainty of high priests defending their failing religion.
Instead, something remarkable happened: America started winning again.
Senator Moreno reports that over 100 CEOs have visited his office discussing plans to bring manufacturing back to American soil. This isn’t theoretical economics—it’s tangible proof that tariffs are achieving exactly what they were designed to accomplish. While establishment economists were busy crafting their doom-and-gloom narratives, American entrepreneurs were quietly making plans to rebuild the industrial base that globalist trade policies had systematically dismantled.
The manufacturing renaissance unfolding across the heartland represents more than economic policy success; it’s a fundamental rejection of the failed consensus that enriched multinational corporations while hollowing out American communities. For decades, working families were told that shipping their jobs overseas was inevitable, that global economic integration was unstoppable, and that American workers should simply adapt to their diminished circumstances.
President Trump’s tariff strategy demolished these defeatist assumptions with characteristic boldness. By leveraging America’s massive consumer market as a negotiating tool rather than a giveaway, the administration transformed trade from a zero-sum game rigged against American workers into a competitive advantage for domestic manufacturing.
The Federal Reserve’s response to this success reveals how thoroughly international financial interests have compromised supposedly neutral American institutions. Treasury Secretary Bessent’s diagnosis of “Tariff Derangement Syndrome” perfectly captures the establishment’s inability to acknowledge policies that prioritize American workers over global capital flows.
Senator Moreno’s confrontation with Fed Chair Powell highlights a crucial constitutional principle: elected officials implementing voter mandates should not defer to unelected bureaucrats pursuing globalist agendas. When Powell and his colleagues issue dire warnings about tariffs, they’re not providing objective economic analysis—they’re defending an international financial system that has systematically transferred American wealth and industrial capacity overseas.
The inflation predictions that never materialized expose the political bias masquerading as analytical competence throughout the economic establishment. These same experts who confidently predicted tariff-induced economic catastrophe have spent years explaining why American manufacturing jobs were gone forever. Their credibility collapse isn’t accidental—it’s the inevitable result of prioritizing ideological commitments over empirical evidence.
This tariff vindication establishes the foundation for broader economic nationalism policies that will continue dismantling the globalist architecture that has weakened American sovereignty. The constitutional restoration happening across government reflects a simple principle: American policy should serve American interests, implemented by officials accountable to American voters.
The manufacturing job creation numbers and corporate reshoring announcements flowing from this policy success provide measurable proof that economic nationalism delivers tangible results for working families. Unlike the abstract theories promoted by globalist economists, these policies create real jobs in real communities for real Americans.
As more companies announce plans to return production to American soil, the expert class faces an uncomfortable reckoning with their failed predictions. Their “catastrophically wrong” assessments of Trump’s tariffs represent more than analytical errors—they reveal a fundamental disconnect between globalist economic theory and American economic reality.
The path forward is clear: continue implementing policies that prioritize American workers, American manufacturing, and American sovereignty over the preferences of international financial elites. The expert class had their chance to guide American trade policy, and they guided it straight into decades of industrial decline. Now it’s time for America First economics to finish the job of rebuilding American prosperity.
