The Cost: Trump, China, and American Revival

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The world needs a strong America, and America needs an economic revival after the Coronavirus season of shutdowns. Can the playbook that resulted in the greatest job market in history put Americans back to work

From the first moments of his presidency, Donald J. Trump put US economic revival at the top of his agenda. Cutting red tape and slashing business tax rates made companies eager to locate in America again. A surge in corporate investment led to record numbers of US job openings.

But there was also another force at work at the start of the Trump era, and its impossible to provide a fair accounting of Trumps governance without noting the unique obstacles hes faced. The Presidents critics styled themselves The Resistance, as if they were confronting a tyrant at the head of an invading army rather than their duly elected President. Much of the media establishment regularlyand wronglyaccused him of betraying the country. Most disturbing was the resistance movement inside government, formed even before the 2016 election, which unleashed unprecedented surveillance against Donald Trump.

The political and media warfare has never ended. Just as an impeachment case collapsed in the Senate earlier this year, the world was beginning to realize how large a threat the Chinese communist government had becomeand what it had been hiding in Wuhan. The destruction caused by the coronavirus is the latest and greatest test for the Trump prosperity agenda.

Once again the health and wealth of the world depend on US leadership for economic revival. This is the story of the man US voters chose to lead in 2016 and will soon consider to lead again.

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Maria Bartiromo is the anchor of the influential premarket programMornings with Mariaand the investing programMaria Bartiromos Wall Streeton Fox Business. She also anchors the top-ratedSunday Morning on Fox News, which is consistently the #1 rated show in all of cable during its time slot. The two-time Emmy Award winning journalist was the first person to report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in 1995 and in 2011 made history once again as the first female journalist to be inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame.TheCostis her fourth book.

James Freeman is assistant editor of The Wall Street Journals editorial page and author of the Best of the Web column. He is coauthor of Borrowed Time: Two Centuries of Booms, Busts, and Bailouts at Citi, a New York Times Editors Choice and Financial Times Business Book of the Month. He is a Fox Newscontributor and former investor advocate at the US Securities and Exchange Commission.