Trump and Bessent are shattering the free-market orthodoxy and reviving Henry Clay's American System — and the jobs numbers prove it's working.
Iran, Ukraine, Israel, a primary shock in California — the map looked like it was burning everywhere at once. Barbara and Susan stop counting the fires and name the arsonist: one imperial machine, and a president who won't take the bait.
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Trump and Bessent are shattering the free-market orthodoxy and reviving Henry Clay's American System — and the jobs numbers prove it's working.
Susan argues that Trump's recent comments praising overlap with Bernie Sanders and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's critique of “slavish devotion to free markets” signal not a change of sides but a shift to a different economic system. It frames Trump’s “new economic plan” as an industrial policy that uses tariffs, tax policy, directed investment, and potential public-private stakes in major AI firms, while also challenging Federal Reserve practices and Wall Street forecasting. Citing the latest jobs report (172,000 jobs versus a 105,000 forecast, with prior months revised upward), it claims the plan is working, though manufacturing hiring is still early, following a sequence of orders, production, investment, then jobs described by Peter Navarro. Susan says this approach revives Henry Clay’s “American System,” presented as distinct from free markets, free trade, or socialism.
00:00 The Saturday Wrap-Up - Trump Agreed With Bernie, Bessent Trashed the Free Market, What’s Going On?! - June 6, 2026
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05:58 First Orders. Then Production. Then Jobs. It’s Working.
10:05 Navarro Names the Name They Banned for 100 Years
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