I often wonder how “pro worker” the protectionist policies local politicians like Brown love so much would seem if every industry in the country enjoyed the same favorable treatment. What about the workers who want to buy a cheaper chinese alternative?
38CFRM21 on
The left will use examples of this to say they need to go even leftier when they fail to realize those blue collar workers aren’t for their economic vision and are just rent seekers themselves.
Steak_Knight on
> “Free trade’s just a dandy concept/Advertisers tell us so/Don’t you question, don’t you doubt it/You’re so stupid. You don’t know.“
This but unironically.
WontonAggression on
This article is infuriating. “American voters aren’t being stupid or voting against their own interests” and “Democrats lost because they lost the pro-working class aesthetic, even though they pushed pro-labor policy” are not compatible assertions. If Americans are voting based on vibes, they are being stupid, full stop.
Copper_Tablet on
Why are there not dozens of articles about “how the GOP won the working class”? I feel like this is always framed as Democrats making mistakes and losing them, while giving zero credit to the GOP for it’s electoral success.
This article is mostly about free trade. The GOP also supports free trade. So what have they done to win over these workers?
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The “wandering” has been from labor rejecting economic policy that is generally considered “pro-labor”
https://archive.ph/2024.12.19-150413/https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/12/19/how-the-democrats-wandered-away-from-americas-workers
I often wonder how “pro worker” the protectionist policies local politicians like Brown love so much would seem if every industry in the country enjoyed the same favorable treatment. What about the workers who want to buy a cheaper chinese alternative?
The left will use examples of this to say they need to go even leftier when they fail to realize those blue collar workers aren’t for their economic vision and are just rent seekers themselves.
> “Free trade’s just a dandy concept/Advertisers tell us so/Don’t you question, don’t you doubt it/You’re so stupid. You don’t know.“
This but unironically.
This article is infuriating. “American voters aren’t being stupid or voting against their own interests” and “Democrats lost because they lost the pro-working class aesthetic, even though they pushed pro-labor policy” are not compatible assertions. If Americans are voting based on vibes, they are being stupid, full stop.
Why are there not dozens of articles about “how the GOP won the working class”? I feel like this is always framed as Democrats making mistakes and losing them, while giving zero credit to the GOP for it’s electoral success.
This article is mostly about free trade. The GOP also supports free trade. So what have they done to win over these workers?