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Nancy Cox's avatar

The incoming administration isn’t out to undo free trade with tariffs. They are looking to get rich from granting exemptions to said tariffs.

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Bill McNeal's avatar

Respectfully...

Economic neoliberalism does not take into account that we're not playing on a level playing field. China builds things with slave labor, and no developed country can compete with that. The only pressure that can be realistically applied is economic. No sane country is going to challenge them militarily.

What this had done in the US and elsewhere is destroy not only communities and our manufacturing base, but the identity of the displaced workers. That has created the current populism here. One party is speaking to those workers and communities, one has not only turned its back on them, but it actively shames them. Whether it's nonsense like, "learn to code" or the dismissive, "flyover country", those people are justifiably angry.

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