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42: Cashing Out My Trump & IDW Positions
The Portal
Is Freer Trade a Suicidal Strategy for the US?
In the trump era, if you wanted to take a short cut around blaming the donor class, which was trying to put pressure on wages to juice corporate profits, you could just blame the desperate immigrants themselves. This left people like me in a conundrum. Essential progressive issues that have been directly stifled for forty to 50 years were suddenly alive again and reborn as right of centr nationalism. But there was always a cost. The trump version of every one of the above reasonable ideas was simpler and thus far more politically powerful than it had previously been. And this polarized many contrarions, myself included. Yes, i am a restrictionist, but i wasn't going to stand for relaxed norms an
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