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The Capitalist Comeback: The Trump Boom and the Left's Plot to Stop It
Andy Puzder, the former CEO of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's, says that "capitalism" is not a dirty word, and thankfully President Trump understands this; his pro-business policies will bring back economic growth and secure our future.
As a successful CEO in the restaurant industry, Andy Puzder uniquely understands how important the profit motive is to our country's ultimate prosperity. Furthermore, as the grandson of immigrants, the son of a car salesman, and someone who worked his way up from earning minimum wage to running an international business, he has a first-hand view of how America's exceptional capitalist spirit can lift everyone to success.
In 2016, the American people faced a stark choice between two very different presidential candidates. Hillary Clinton spent most of her adult life involved in politics and promised to uphold and advance the progressive legacy of President Barack Obama who had first won the White House on promises to "spread the wealth around." Donald Trump, on the other hand, came from the business world, was an unapologetic capitalist, used his own personal wealth as inspiration, and promised simply to "Make America Great Again."
By choosing Trump over Clinton, the American people put a stop to decades of government expansion under progressive leadership, and they might just have saved our economy by doing so.
America was once a land where everyone was encouraged to seek their fortune - the more prosperous our citizens, the more our whole society could in turn prosper. But leftist forces in the United States have been seeking to tarnish the pursuit of prosperity and to paint profit as an evil motivation fit only for greedy plutocrats. Andrew Puzder understands this first-hand after a progressive smear campaign stopped him from joining President Trump's cabinet. As Puzder explains in his new book, THE CAPITALIST COMEBACK, this was an act of desperation from a left wing facing irrelevance with a pro-business president in the White House. From its roots in the Progressive Era to labor unions to education to entertainment to its political resurgence with avowed socialist candidates such as Bernie Sanders, Puzder traces the development of the anti-profit forces in the United States and shows how, under President Trump, they can be vanquished for good.
As a successful CEO in the restaurant industry, Andy Puzder uniquely understands how important the profit motive is to our country's ultimate prosperity. Furthermore, as the grandson of immigrants, the son of a car salesman, and someone who worked his way up from earning minimum wage to running an international business, he has a first-hand view of how America's exceptional capitalist spirit can lift everyone to success.
In 2016, the American people faced a stark choice between two very different presidential candidates. Hillary Clinton spent most of her adult life involved in politics and promised to uphold and advance the progressive legacy of President Barack Obama who had first won the White House on promises to "spread the wealth around." Donald Trump, on the other hand, came from the business world, was an unapologetic capitalist, used his own personal wealth as inspiration, and promised simply to "Make America Great Again."
By choosing Trump over Clinton, the American people put a stop to decades of government expansion under progressive leadership, and they might just have saved our economy by doing so.
America was once a land where everyone was encouraged to seek their fortune - the more prosperous our citizens, the more our whole society could in turn prosper. But leftist forces in the United States have been seeking to tarnish the pursuit of prosperity and to paint profit as an evil motivation fit only for greedy plutocrats. Andrew Puzder understands this first-hand after a progressive smear campaign stopped him from joining President Trump's cabinet. As Puzder explains in his new book, THE CAPITALIST COMEBACK, this was an act of desperation from a left wing facing irrelevance with a pro-business president in the White House. From its roots in the Progressive Era to labor unions to education to entertainment to its political resurgence with avowed socialist candidates such as Bernie Sanders, Puzder traces the development of the anti-profit forces in the United States and shows how, under President Trump, they can be vanquished for good.
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Published April 24, 2018
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May 26, 2018
This is a book I’d love to hand to a left leaning college student. Saying…..look kiddo you have two choices before you. Bernie Sanders make believe world of “free” stuff, or President Trump’s policies of getting government out of the way so you have a better chance at getting a good job and making a living. No matter how you dress socialism up by calling it “democratic socialism” it still eventually “runs out of others peoples money.”
Capitalism is what built this country, it’s what created the middle class, and it’s raised the standard of living for millions of people worldwide as countries are embracing free market ideas. When people are freer to trade their goods, services, resources and skills more prosperity happens. When government micromanages us more in the market place less wealth and prosperity is created, why innovate if you’re going to be punished? Why get a job if you can live off the government roles?
This book does a wonderful job expressing the true benefits of capitalism and government policy being friendlier to the free market over “democratic socialism” with government lording over us in the market place. I love that this book focuses solely on the economy, and the contrasting visions of President Trump vs. former President Obama and co. (Sanders, Clinton, Warren) Capitalism shouldn’t be demonized whatsoever…..the products young (and hip) people enjoy are all because the free market, sometimes I don’t think they realize that as they rant about capitalism on their iphone. =-|
While this book isn’t geared towards college studetns I just think it would be a great read for them. As it’s clear, concise, not to technical, and makes a great case for what President Trump is doing in the ecomomic realm vs. what the left in this country wants and is trying to do. Great book for anyone interested in the economy, great book for those who think they won’t understand economic issues.
Capitalism is what built this country, it’s what created the middle class, and it’s raised the standard of living for millions of people worldwide as countries are embracing free market ideas. When people are freer to trade their goods, services, resources and skills more prosperity happens. When government micromanages us more in the market place less wealth and prosperity is created, why innovate if you’re going to be punished? Why get a job if you can live off the government roles?
This book does a wonderful job expressing the true benefits of capitalism and government policy being friendlier to the free market over “democratic socialism” with government lording over us in the market place. I love that this book focuses solely on the economy, and the contrasting visions of President Trump vs. former President Obama and co. (Sanders, Clinton, Warren) Capitalism shouldn’t be demonized whatsoever…..the products young (and hip) people enjoy are all because the free market, sometimes I don’t think they realize that as they rant about capitalism on their iphone. =-|
While this book isn’t geared towards college studetns I just think it would be a great read for them. As it’s clear, concise, not to technical, and makes a great case for what President Trump is doing in the ecomomic realm vs. what the left in this country wants and is trying to do. Great book for anyone interested in the economy, great book for those who think they won’t understand economic issues.
April 16, 2019
Andrew Puzder does not equivocate much in his opinions. That was a good reason why, when he was nominated for Secretary of Labor in the first few months of the Trump Administration, the progressive establishment went ballistic. There is no denying that the firm he ran (Carls Jr) is a good firm in its niche. I am not a big fan of fast food. That chain and others like it offer a good range of initial job opportunities. But the SEIU and others created a narrative that he was something akin to the devil.
The book does a good description of the character assassination that was used against him by the repetition of false narratives of his character and business practices. He describes in some detail how his opponents were able to use the coordinated attacks from the MSM and interest groups where a lot of what developed was simply an echo chamber. That part of the book would be worth the read. The degradation of traditional news sources and the reinforcement of new media has created unstable conditions which the progressives have used effectively.
The book does two other things, however, which make it useful. First, in a series of chapters he clearly presents (to the extent this can be done clearly) the intent of the Trump administration in rolling back the excesses of the Obama era. Obama was successful with only two major pieces of legislation - the ACA and Dodd-Frank. When they lost their governing majority they ruled by administrative decree. Many of those orders have now been rescinded.
Part of his discussion is an attempt to explain just how lousy the performance of the Obama presidency was. When the Stimulus package was adopted unemployment was at 8% - the administration then tacked together 10 quarters where UI was above 10%. Economic growth, even if you concede that the recession from the bank/housing crisis (which was substantially caused by absurd policy supported in part by the two principal authors of Dodd-Frank) was deep. For his 8 years Obama had an average GDP growth of 1.5% compared to the first several quarters of the Trump administration where growth exceeded 3%.
He presents some historical data on the dynamic nature of the American economy. For example, between 1860 and 1900 the US economy grew by 5.5 times (from $16 to $88 billion). Most amazing was that population AND per capita income doubled during roughly the same period. He offers an explanation, which I think is mostly correct, that the shift from a focus on limited government to an expansive one came beginning with Woodrow Wilson (who wrote an essay called Socialism and Democracy - prior to his book Congressional Government) which lays out Wilson's disdain for the Founder's vision.
Ultimately, he then goes through all the things the progressives are trying to do now - from controlling speech and destroying meaning to expanding government into areas where it will not be successful. He describes these trends as unrelenting because the progressives believe in the inevitability of history.
The final part of the book is dated. He tries to explain why conservatives will continue to rack up victories (SEE 2018 - which I believe in part was due to the bellicose nature of the current President's style).
This book is part polemic and part a resource of lots of data to explain why the folly of the progressive agenda is bound to fail.
The book does a good description of the character assassination that was used against him by the repetition of false narratives of his character and business practices. He describes in some detail how his opponents were able to use the coordinated attacks from the MSM and interest groups where a lot of what developed was simply an echo chamber. That part of the book would be worth the read. The degradation of traditional news sources and the reinforcement of new media has created unstable conditions which the progressives have used effectively.
The book does two other things, however, which make it useful. First, in a series of chapters he clearly presents (to the extent this can be done clearly) the intent of the Trump administration in rolling back the excesses of the Obama era. Obama was successful with only two major pieces of legislation - the ACA and Dodd-Frank. When they lost their governing majority they ruled by administrative decree. Many of those orders have now been rescinded.
Part of his discussion is an attempt to explain just how lousy the performance of the Obama presidency was. When the Stimulus package was adopted unemployment was at 8% - the administration then tacked together 10 quarters where UI was above 10%. Economic growth, even if you concede that the recession from the bank/housing crisis (which was substantially caused by absurd policy supported in part by the two principal authors of Dodd-Frank) was deep. For his 8 years Obama had an average GDP growth of 1.5% compared to the first several quarters of the Trump administration where growth exceeded 3%.
He presents some historical data on the dynamic nature of the American economy. For example, between 1860 and 1900 the US economy grew by 5.5 times (from $16 to $88 billion). Most amazing was that population AND per capita income doubled during roughly the same period. He offers an explanation, which I think is mostly correct, that the shift from a focus on limited government to an expansive one came beginning with Woodrow Wilson (who wrote an essay called Socialism and Democracy - prior to his book Congressional Government) which lays out Wilson's disdain for the Founder's vision.
Ultimately, he then goes through all the things the progressives are trying to do now - from controlling speech and destroying meaning to expanding government into areas where it will not be successful. He describes these trends as unrelenting because the progressives believe in the inevitability of history.
The final part of the book is dated. He tries to explain why conservatives will continue to rack up victories (SEE 2018 - which I believe in part was due to the bellicose nature of the current President's style).
This book is part polemic and part a resource of lots of data to explain why the folly of the progressive agenda is bound to fail.
December 17, 2018
Fuck off, Puzzy.
December 9, 2019
A bit propagandist at times but it is difficult to argue with the history of market economies vs. command economies for economic growth, prosperity, opportunity, and equity. Good when arguing against the progressivist impulse, hit and miss on the recent events in Trump administration and its protectionist tendencies. On the whole, an engaging read.
July 7, 2018
I thought this was a great book on America’s economics and history. I enjoyed reading about why America’s forefathers created the governmental system they did and why we still use it.
July 21, 2021
I was surprised how informational and factual this book was; it described the history and effect of capitalism and socialism very well. The author also gave his own experience of capitalism, from working minimum wage to being the CEO of CKE restaurants (Carl’s Jr/Hardee’s), leading to his nomination of Secretary of Labor under the Trump administration, and then his subsequent attacks from the left to pressure to withdraw from consideration. He gave reasons why Obama’s decisions on higher government regulation created a stagnant economy and why Trump was able to change that and lower unemployment by reversal of those regulations. It takes an understanding of businesses to create a healthy economy, and as little government intervention as possible. I really enjoyed this book.
December 22, 2019
Speaks the truth about Socialism vs Capitalism!
Really enjoyed reading this prospectus of how our president is making inroads into economic sanity in the midst of a desperate Left aiming to kill 243 years of American ingenuity and common sense.
Really enjoyed reading this prospectus of how our president is making inroads into economic sanity in the midst of a desperate Left aiming to kill 243 years of American ingenuity and common sense.
May 17, 2020
A piece of Soviet-style propaganda
July 1, 2025
LMAOOO
-Gets rejected to be DOL (same Senate that confirmed Kavanaugh & DeVos)
-Writes book crying about Liberals ruining everything
-recently accused BLACKROCK of being woke by appointing Exxon execs
-Somehow is now EU ambassador
Truely the American dream.
-Gets rejected to be DOL (same Senate that confirmed Kavanaugh & DeVos)
-Writes book crying about Liberals ruining everything
-recently accused BLACKROCK of being woke by appointing Exxon execs
-Somehow is now EU ambassador
Truely the American dream.
August 14, 2018
Excellent book!!!
March 25, 2022
The book is interesting and I really agree with many of the author's arguments when talking about the capitalist system in general. However, the author spends most of the book describing capitalist and socialist systems and really fails to provide any meaningful analysis of Trump's economic decisions and their impact both nationally and internationally. When praising Trump, the author also falls in the same trap he accuses the other side of falling into, he takes a strict partisan line and does not consider the merits/problems of an idea in itself.
November 10, 2020
“Within eight years, America went from having a president who apologized for America to the world’s dictators, demagogues, and socialists at the United Nations to a president ready, willing, and very able to reclaim American leadership on capitalism and democracy.”
Don’t read it if you’re a socialist. Incredible, knowledgeable, and in-depth read about why capitalism works, socialism doesn’t, why President Trumps economy was booming, and how and why socialism will destroy America.
Don’t read it if you’re a socialist. Incredible, knowledgeable, and in-depth read about why capitalism works, socialism doesn’t, why President Trumps economy was booming, and how and why socialism will destroy America.
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