Larry Kudlow, who took over as director of the National Economic Council after Gary Cohn's departure last month, is so far demonstrating extraordinary leadership in being able to reconcile the disparate factions within the Trump administration, all the while promoting growth-centered policies that would only strengthen an economy already in its best shape in years.
Inasmuch as Mr. Kudlow hopes to continue the success of his predecessor, Gary Cohn, and engender a grand economic vision in accord with the president's overriding agenda and in service to the interests of the American public, he also must wage a political battle among the so-called nationalist and globalist factions within the administration.
While Mr. Kudlow has been at least loosely allied to a global orientation and has been a general advocate for free trade in his long career as a commentator and journalist, he has increasingly shown recourse to a more Trumpian stroke during the 2016 campaign and especially in his present directorship.
In large part responding to the populist forces that ushered Donald Trump to the White House, Mr. Kudlow has indicated solidarity with the president on a bilateral, "Country-by-country" approach to free trade agreements, as opposed to the creed of multilateralism of previous presidents.
To this point, Mr. Kudlow has made overtures to Peter Navarro, director of the White House Trade Council and an economic nationalist who helped spearhead the administration's recent tariffs on thousands of Chinese products to remedy the United States' massive $50-billion trade deficit.
Mr. Kudlow is also said to have tried to make the president reconsider his position on the Trans Pacific Partnership, the sweeping multilateral trade deal promulgated by the Obama and Bush administrations.
Larry Kudlow is no novice to Washington politics.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/larry_kudlow_defying_critics_cleaning_house.html
Inasmuch as Mr. Kudlow hopes to continue the success of his predecessor, Gary Cohn, and engender a grand economic vision in accord with the president's overriding agenda and in service to the interests of the American public, he also must wage a political battle among the so-called nationalist and globalist factions within the administration.
While Mr. Kudlow has been at least loosely allied to a global orientation and has been a general advocate for free trade in his long career as a commentator and journalist, he has increasingly shown recourse to a more Trumpian stroke during the 2016 campaign and especially in his present directorship.
In large part responding to the populist forces that ushered Donald Trump to the White House, Mr. Kudlow has indicated solidarity with the president on a bilateral, "Country-by-country" approach to free trade agreements, as opposed to the creed of multilateralism of previous presidents.
To this point, Mr. Kudlow has made overtures to Peter Navarro, director of the White House Trade Council and an economic nationalist who helped spearhead the administration's recent tariffs on thousands of Chinese products to remedy the United States' massive $50-billion trade deficit.
Mr. Kudlow is also said to have tried to make the president reconsider his position on the Trans Pacific Partnership, the sweeping multilateral trade deal promulgated by the Obama and Bush administrations.
Larry Kudlow is no novice to Washington politics.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/larry_kudlow_defying_critics_cleaning_house.html
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