Jimmy Higgins
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Is that true? While some things are a bit harder today, we have a lot more today that we did in the 80s. If anything, one of the perceived First World strains stems straight from that! Our access to data, media, entertainment has never been better. Cars are better. Appliances and stuff for the home is (well it was) plentiful. It isn't as reliable, but it is a lot cheaper, and lower and middle class do get those advantages.Globalism does not work for the middle class and the middle class knows this. The middle class knows Washington was gravely mistaken especially with regards:Trump's tariff policy cost the US about 250,000 jobs (mostly middle-class jobs) and didn't change the trade imbalance in the least. It reduced our GNP and hurt the country.He was authentic and credilble at the time because he was the ONLY politician at the time saying he would place tariffs and prevent further globalization. All the other politicians (both sides) were saying the same other story. They were saying the jobs went away are aren't ever coming back. The middle class knew better because they knew the real truth that our politicians had sold them out to special interests and were still selling them out.
All the other stuff about the hair and the toilets, the little people could care less about. All the little people care about is whether their OWN lives get better or not. And for better or worse Trump was authentic to them because he was telling the truth. I happen to believe Biden has learned a lesson from this because so far he has not removed mann of Trump's tarriffs and appears genuenly interested in bringing strategic industry (chips) back to Ohio.
All I'm saying (related to the OP) is that Biden should keep the good things about Trump (tariffs) and get rid of the bad things about Trump (trying to look like Hitler to other party). And he will be tons more successful.
Trump tariffs - Wikipedia
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1. That production and manufacturing jobs were unimportant because those positions would be replaced by better paying service and information jobs....and
2. That if the US helped China into the WTO, the PRC would become more of a democracy.
That why the last few elections haven't been blow outs?The real and unvarnished truth is that our political elite messed up big time and the middle class knows this.
Dude... the factories in China closed and moved to Vietnam. That toothpaste is out of the tube, ain't going back in.That is why the globalism pendulum has started swinging the other way and its not coming back.
The middle class wants its cake... and to eat it. They want all of the stuff they can get... and they want it cheap... and if it is convenient, more good paying jobs in the US... but only if that doesn't impact the first two things.Despite what wikipedia has to say about it.
All of this is off topic to the OP anyway. Even if your argument is correct, Biden would still favor anti-globalism at this point because that is what the middle class wants.