If you find yourself confused by our president’s economic policy this might help.

The policy starts with a promise to Make America Great Again. Don’t underestimate the importance of “Again” in this. We were great in the day in which thousands of miners dug coal—many dying in the process—to send to the steel mills that now have among the highest costs in the world and are not competitive. Those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end. But they did. Of course, as those industries declined new ones sprang up, many in Silicon Valley, with brain replacing brawn as the basis of American economic prosperity. Never mind: the goal of policy now is to restore the pollution-spewing industries of days gone by, and use the antitrust laws to bring down Amazon and other 21^st century industries. Then, and only then, will America be great again.