As a Bostonian I've had more than my share of dealing with, and summary dismissal of, LaRouchians

... but I'm finding Susan rather credible these days. She's been consistent for a long time, and the happenings of late are vindicating.

The "American System" & Jameson Greer

The video highlights Jameson Greer (Trade Representative nominee) and his Davos speech as a turning point toward "Hamiltonianism". "We are moving from a world of 'efficiency' to a world of 'resilience' and 'national sovereignty'."

The video argues that for 50 years, the U.S. followed the "British System" of free trade and financialization. Greer proposes returning to the American System (Hamilton, Henry Clay, and Abraham Lincoln), which uses tariffs as a tool for industrial development rather than just revenue.

The "Main Street" Pivot: The focus is on "production over consumption." Instead of cheap imports, the goal is high-paying domestic jobs.

The "British System"

The video characterizes the British System as a "system of slavery and debt" designed to keep nations as colonies that export raw materials and import finished goods.

The "Enemy" Philosophy: It describes the British model (Adam Smith/Free Trade) as an "empire of the mind" used to subjugate the U.S. through de-industrialization off-and-on over into a British-led Imperialist (globalist) system.

Hamiltonianism (the "American System") was specifically created to break British economic dominance through high tariffs and national banking, ensuring the U.S. wouldn't be a "vassal state", and the counter-strike is back on.

Assassinations & The "Money Power"

The video draws a historical parallel between leaders who fought for the American System and their untimely deaths. "The history of the American System is a history of martyrdom."

Susan suggests that every time a leader attempted to break the "money power" (centralized banking/Wall Street dominance) and return to Hamiltonian industrial policy, they were met with extreme resistance.

Specific references: Hamilton himself, Abraham Lincoln, and William McKinley as "American System" presidents whose assassinations coincided with shifts back toward globalist or "easy money" policies that favored international financiers over domestic producers.

The Kevin Warsh / Fed Connection

"Ending the dogma that says worker wages cause inflation."

Kevin Warsh is presented as the "enforcer" of this New Deal at the Federal Reserve. The argument is that the Fed has historically suppressed wages to protect the value of the dollar for the wealthy; the "New Deal" flip intends to let wages rise while using tariffs to control the trade deficit. Kevin Warsh himself used the term "regime change".

Economic Sovereignty

"Economics is not a science; it is a tool of statecraft."

The "neoliberal" era treated the economy as a global machine beyond control. The "Republican New Deal" treats it as a sovereign interest, where the government actively picks "production" over "speculation".

Manufacturing Anecdotes

Excavators: John Deere is building two massive plants in Indiana and North Carolina. The North Carolina plant will produce excavating equipment, marking the first time an excavator has been built in the U.S. in 50 years. The plant is relocating from Japan due to tariffs.

Steel: For the first time in 26 years, the United States produced more steel than Japan, a shift attributed directly to trade tariffs.

Graphite: A new graphite processing plant in New York is the first of its kind in the U.S. in 70 years.