When Andrew Saville, owner of Coosa Steel in Rome, Georgia, looked President Trump in the eye and said "tariffs work," he wasn't spouting political talking points. He was speaking the raw truth about what America First policies have done for real American workers and manufacturers.
Coosa Steel has been making steel racks and plates for over 50 years—American workers, American sweat, American products stamped Made in the USA. But thanks to decades of globalist trade sellouts, China flooded the market with subsidized products at $90 per piece while American production costs sat at $150. The result? Two shifts six days a week collapsed to one shift, then three days, then one day, then just ONE HOUR per week.
That's what NAFTA, Clinton-era deals, and Obama's "you didn't build that" mentality actually produced—ghost shifts in empty American factories while China got rich off our stupidity.
Then Trump Won. Everything Changed.
In October 2025, Saville landed his first massive tire rack order in ten years. The order was so large he thought it was a mistake. It wasn't a mistake—it was tariffs working exactly as promised. Now Coosa Steel is running two shifts a day, six days a week, with a 36-week lead time on orders. They just installed a brand new crane two months ago.
"Your policy brought it here, sir," Saville told Trump during his visit to the plant.
But this story goes far beyond one steel plant in Georgia. Trump revealed numbers the mainstream media has completely buried: More than 5,000 new manufacturing jobs created in Georgia alone. Over 70,000 construction jobs building new factories across the state. More Americans working today than at any time in the history of our country—not since 2001, not since the 1990s, but EVER.
"This could be one of the greatest economic years in modern American history," said Peter Navarro, citing data showing CPI inflation at its lowest level since 2021 and real wages up nearly $1,400.
Meanwhile, Trump has tackled the housing crisis head-on with rent prices hitting four-year lows, mortgage applications up 30 percent, and a ban on institutional investors like BlackRock buying single-family homes. He even launched Trump Accounts giving every newborn child a $1,000 investment account.
The American dream isn't dead—it's being rebuilt one tariff, one tax cut, and one executive order at a time. And the Democrats? They voted against every single one of these policies. Every. Single. One.