{"id":1156904,"date":"2021-12-26T09:04:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T14:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1156904"},"modified":"2021-12-26T10:21:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T15:21:05","slug":"trump-knew-100-percent-he-was-fighting-for-the-little-guy-former-top-trump-economic-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-knew-100-percent-he-was-fighting-for-the-little-guy-former-top-trump-economic-adviser\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Knew \u2018100 Percent\u2019 He Was \u2018Fighting for the Little Guy\u2019: Former Top Trump Economic Adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-knew-100-percent-he-was-fighting-for-the-little-guy-former-top-trump-economic-adviser%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1156904&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-president-donald-trump\">President Donald Trump<\/a> pursued policies that fought against a drift into socialism and culminated in an \u201cabsolute success story for the little guy,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-kevin-hassett\">Kevin Hassett<\/a>, an economist who was Trump\u2019s top economic adviser during the initial years of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Going into the presidency, Trump \u201cabsolutely understood that he was fighting a very big, powerful historical force \u2026 and he also knew 100 percent that he was fighting for the little guy,\u201d Hassett, who served as the 29th Chairman of the President\u2019s Council of Economic Advisers from 2017 through 2019, recently told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/former-top-trump-adviser-we-tried-stopping-americas-drift-into-socialism_4176614.html\">EpochTV\u2019s Crossroads program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hassett is also vice president of the Lindsey Group and a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. His latest book,\u00a0titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B097CW7FQJ\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0\">The Drift: Stopping America\u2019s Slide to Socialism<\/a>,\u201d details how the United States has been descending into socialism and how Trump moved to resist the slide. In his book, Hassett details how the American people can also push back against the ongoing \u201cdrift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration pursued policies that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-touts-regulatory-rollbacks-cutting-red-tape-in-speech_3427352.html\">cut taxes and regulations<\/a>, changing the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-economy\">economy<\/a> for the better, Hassett told Crossroads, adding that during the years he served in the Trump administration, \u201cincome inequality dropped sharply for the first time since World War Two, wages grew faster for people in the bottom 10 percent of the wage distribution than for people at the top, as did wealth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe homeownership grew startlingly for people at the bottom 10 percent, seven million people went off food stamps, [and] three million people went out of poverty,\u201d he added. \u201cIt was an absolute success story for the little guy. And yet, the more the good news came, the angrier and angrier the left wing got.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the economic successes that were in part spurred by Trump policies, \u201call these people that became never-Trumpers, that distanced themselves from Trump, [it was] because they were afraid of losing their own respectability,\u201d Hassett said.<\/p>\n<p>This included \u201cBush Republicans [who] never came to the defense of Donald Trump\u2019s people even when they were fighting for the right policies,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>The left uses the weapon of \u201crespectability\u201d created by the leftist-controlled universities and media that touts socialist ideology as one way to influence how people think, Hassett suggested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause the left would control of the universities and the control of the media, they act as that is if they could actually give people or take away their respectability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese [leftist] folks don\u2019t want Trump to succeed, because in the end, they don\u2019t maybe necessarily care about income inequality. It\u2019s just a political device for them to get the political power, they need to seize control of the society, and to take the power for themselves and really take totalitarian power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hassett said his book identifies the various forces aligned against the idea of capitalism and free markets, and \u201chow organized [these forces] are, where they are, what their tactics are, and what we can do to stand up to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to learn what socialism is, you need to spot it in their policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Central planning is \u201ceverywhere\u201d in the agenda of the Democrats, Hassett said in the interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore you know it, the government basically controls the means of production, and distributes the goods, without regard to the price mechanism or productivity. And we could go on and on, but that\u2019s the Democrats\u2019 agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hassett asserted that many of President Joe Biden\u2019s policies are \u201cproposing a socialist takeover of the means of production.\u201d\u00a0He provided some specific examples in\u00a0the interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you see a country where policies like that survive, that it has to be that they created a government that can disregard the will of the people \u2026 if you look at the sort of ruthlessness with which the Democrats have been using the government to indict everybody, and so on, they really are trying to intimidate their way into having control over the economy,\u201d\u00a0Hassett commented. \u201cAnd, you know, it\u2019s up to us to stand up against them.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mimi Nguyen Ly is an assignment editor and world news reporter based in Australia. She has a background in optometry. Contact her at mimi.nl@epochtimes.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-joshua-philipp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Josh_AvatarNew.png\" alt=\"Joshua Philipp\" \/><\/a>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Joshua Philipp is an award-winning investigative reporter with The Epoch Times and host of EpochTV&#8217;s &#8220;Crossroads&#8221; program. He is a recognized expert on unrestricted warfare, asymmetrical hybrid warfare, subversion, and historical perspectives on today\u2019s issues. His 10-plus years of research and investigations on the Chinese Communist Party, subversion, and related topics give him unique insight into the global threat and political landscape.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump pursued policies that fought against a drift into socialism and culminated in an \u201cabsolute success story for the little guy,\u201d according to Kevin Hassett, an economist &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}