Mr. Irrelevant ...

Jack X. Zhou

Mr. Irrelevant, the NFL term for the last player drafted, relates to America, the once great nation falling behind China as we speak. This decline began under Ronnie's tenure as president when deregulation ruled to game the system and reward stockholders by off shoring manufacturing to, you guessed it, China, thus ensuring the gutting of this nation's ability to build anything of consequence, something now being amplified to the 9s by the Trump administration's unique ability to tear apart all the institutions that enabled this country to become great,
something tragic to the extreme.

That century may already have dawned, and when historians look back they may very well pinpoint the early months of President Trump’s second term as the watershed moment when China pulled away and left the United States behind.

It doesn’t matter that Washington and Beijing have reached an inconclusive and temporary truce in Mr. Trump’s trade war. The U.S. president immediately claimed it as a win, but that only underlines the fundamental problem for the Trump administration and America: a shortsighted focus on inconsequential skirmishes as the larger war with China is being decisively lost.

Mr. Trump is taking a wrecking ball to the pillars of American power and innovation. His tariffs are endangering U.S. companies’ access to global markets and supply chains. He is slashing public research funding and gutting our universities, pushing talented researchers to consider leaving for other countries. He wants to roll back programs for technologies like clean energy and semiconductor manufacturing and is wiping out American soft power in large swaths of the globe.

China’s trajectory couldn’t be more different. ...

Brock Purdy was selected as Mr. Irrelevant in the 2022 NFL draft

Factoid: Purdy's the most successful Mr. Irrelevant ever.