Tariffs. A simple word with complex implications. To Donald Trump, it is, in his own words, “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” Beneath the soundbites, erratic tweets, and abrupt policy shifts lies a sweeping geopolitical ambition: to reorder the global economic and security architecture that the United States itself spent decades constructing—first through Bretton Woods, then through the neoliberal globalization era.
What may appear as economic chaos is, in fact, deliberate disruption: the first act of a three-stage strategy aimed at reindustrializing the United States, recalibrating international trade, and redefining America’s global alliances into a tiered, transactional framework. To understand this “MAGA Master Plan,” one must unpack the underlying logic of Trump’s new economic team, the historical precedents they’re drawing from, and the long-term strategic vision embedded in their rhetoric.
The MAGA Masterminds
At the helm of Trump’s second-term economic …