The New Maga Deal: The Unofficial Deplorables Guide to Donald Trump's 2024 Policy Platform

by Peter Navarro

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics

221 pages, Hardcover

Published July 16, 2024

About the author

A Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He received several teaching awards in 2010 for the MBA programs that he teaches.

Navarro ran for office in San Diego, California, three times. In 1992, he ran for mayor, winning the primary race, but losing to Susan Golding in the runoff. In 1996, he ran for the 49th Congressional District, but lost to Republican Brian Bilbray. In 2001, Navarro ran in a special election to fill the District 6 San Diego city council seat, but lost in the primary.

Reviews

[Sherrie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic book! Every American needs to read this. There isn’t enough room on the review area to highlight all the parts of the book I enjoyed. However, I would like to give you a glimpse on how the book starts out. It is a must read.

Here is a glimpse:

Biden’s EV (Electric Vehicle) credit represents the Full employment Act for Red chinese part, particularly high value-added parts such as lithium batteries. These tax credits are also regressive, going primarily to the highest-income households since they can afford the high priced EV.

All Biden’s military vehicles will be powered by the communist batteries made in Chinese factories-this is a United States military who is far too dependent on foreign imports, including integrated circuits used in cell phones, cruise missiles, drones, and satellites.

Trump will implement/enforce Buy American policies
- buy american policies will be enforced particularly to industries critical to national security
- No taxpayers monies are used to finance the foreign production of manufactured products, particularly in Communist China.
- Trump will eliminated all EV mandates and subsidies!

Thanks to Biden’s fecklessness,Saudi princes and Vladimir Putin now set oil prices, not the United States.

Many countries have little to no tariffs for importing into the U.S. While the U.S has high tariffs to exporting to other countries. This makes it hard for US business to export. Trump plans on passing a law that will make countries match or mirror the same tariff amount that they receive for importing to the U.S for all US businesses exporting.

[Patrick Duran · Rating 5 out of 5]

This guy is a true patriot! He went to prison for four months for refusing to testify at a sham committee hearing in which circumstances nobody has ever been tried before. Our country is dangerously close to becoming a totalitarian nation, though certain judicial measures already reek of third-world country tactics. God bless him, as he continues to remain positive about the potential for U.S. greatness in the event Donald Trump can ascend to the highest office once again (if the elites in power allow that to happen). The blinding positivity that would emerge from such a victory, granted his plan is not thwarted by villains and ne'er-do-wells, would prove once and for all that the Great Reset planned by the corporate technocrats is a false promise of utopia that would only exist for the elites.

[Brennan Hoem · Rating 2 out of 5]

I picked up this book because I wanted to read at least one policy book from each party’s policy perspective; democrat and republican. I do this to get a better idea of each sides arguments, which makes me a more informed voter as an independent. Especially in areas I disagree, this education is essential. As expected, this book is heavily one-sided toward MAGA. Navarro does his best to redefine MAGA, but the stance on ALL vaccines (not just COVID-19) and negligence of January 6th events made it a difficult read for me. However, I shockingly found myself agreeing with a lot of economic and foreign policy approaches related to divesting from China, doubling down on Chinese cyber security threats, reworking tariff deals to balance imports & exports, and subsidizing corporations to relocate manufacturing back to the United States in the interest of national security and job creation. I also agree that social media / big tech companies should be held responsible for the mental health issues they cause children: a well presented argument by Navarro. I recommend this read, not only to independents but especially to open minded democrats: understanding the MAGA platform and the reasons behind it can help them present or even adjust their platform in a more compelling way.

[Daniel Quigley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Peter Navarro going over all of the major policy prescriptions that President Trump may implement in a second term. Good stuff and hard to disagree with when you actually read it with an open mind.

[Gregory Howe · Rating 5 out of 5]

This tome is not entirely written by Dr. Navarro, it also includes passages written by others. Thirty-seven topics and five other sections comprise this outline of the common sense proposals espoused by Donald J. Trump in his attempt to make America great again.

Three of these proposals comprise the iron MAGA triangle of populist economic nationalism: An end to America's endless wars, strengthening American manufacturing and securing America's borders.

The myriad other policies are well written and interesting. Seeing the roadmap for the rebirth of America kept my spirits up during the interminable election season when the diabolical legacy media continued their barrage of negative stories about Trump and his MAGA supporters. All of which have now been proven to be lies.

Especially poignant is the epilogue written by the author as he is getting ready to go to prison for an alleged crime that no senior White House official has EVER been charged with in the history of our Republic. This despicable department of justice assembled by the Biden cartel and headed by the positively satanic partisan Merrick Garland practices the most evil law fare against its supposed enemies. Thankfully the majority of Americans have recognized that the judicial system has been weaponized against them. The bums have now been thrown out and the incoming saviors of our Republic must finish the job began during their first term by completely draining the sewer.

[Grommit · Rating 2 out of 5]

There is value here. Unfortunately, it is delivered as a one-sided argument. A real "my way or the highway". Which is too bad, because many of the propositions are worthy of examination.
Sadly, this is the way our current political discourse is conducted.

[gary paxson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the Third of Peters's books that I have read. It was informative and enjoyable, I am so looking forward to the next four years and hopefully, the decades that follow.