WATCH: Why Trump is fighting a century-old global system
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Was America’s industrial collapse really an accident, or was deindustrialization a deliberate strategy tied to globalization itself?
In this sweeping conversation, Elizabeth Farah sits down with political analyst Susan Kokinda of Promethean Action to examine what she calls the battle between the “American System” and a global financial order that has reshaped the modern world. Drawing from the ideas of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and the rise of industrial America, Kokinda argues that the United States once operated under a completely different economic philosophy, one centered on production, national sovereignty, infrastructure, and the strength of the middle class.
She contends that this system was intentionally dismantled over decades through financialization, free trade policies, and deindustrialization, transforming America from a manufacturing powerhouse into a consumer economy increasingly controlled by global financial interests.
As the discussion unfolds, Farah presses into the deeper implications. Why were factories hollowed out across the Midwest? What role did the Federal Reserve and globalization play in shifting economic power away from ordinary Americans? And why are figures inside the Trump administration suddenly reviving ideas rooted in Hamiltonian economics and economic nationalism?
Kokinda argues that the real conflict is not simply left versus right, but a larger struggle between national sovereignty and what she describes as an imperial financial system that prioritizes control, speculation, and globalization over productive economies and independent nations.
What You Will Hear
• Why Susan Kokinda says America’s deindustrialization was intentional
• The difference between the “American System” and global financial capitalism
• How Alexander Hamilton shaped early American economic policy
• Why tariffs, manufacturing, and infrastructure were once central to national growth
• The role of the Federal Reserve in modern financialization
• Why Trump officials are suddenly invoking Hamiltonian economics
• How globalization changed America’s middle class and industrial base
• Why Kokinda believes nationalism and sovereignty are returning worldwide
• The deeper philosophical divide between productive economies and financial empires
• Why economic policy ultimately shapes culture, stability, and national identity
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Susan Kokinda exposes why America’s factories were DESTROYED, and why Trump is fighting the global system behind it. @sjkokinda https://t.co/Em74fYWV0K
— Elizabeth Farah America 1st always (@ElizabethFarah) May 7, 2026
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