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"They" don't care about Americans having economic freedom, they care about maintaining access to cheap third world labor.
The tax stream from the Home Depot’s, Rite Aids, Burger Kings and all other large chains that you find on Main Street America has made it all but impossible for the old time small business that used to cover the streets of local communities.
Some poor young fool that wants to open a business must go through the same exact Hoops as these big retailers to open his doors.
The small-town businesses that used to sponsor local Little League teams and buy ads in yearbooks are gone.
Yeah you can open a plumbing business, give each other massages or haircuts but the “Workers America” now works for Wall Street and big government and they in turn control what’s right for the masses.
The party they thought they owned is dead, as dead as the Whigs in 1856, and a new Republican Party is beginning to emerge, one shaped by two crises that the establishment had ignored: income immobility and corruption.
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I disagree, what killed the GOPES was their refusal to stop the illegal alien inundation.
The citizens have been begging for them to side with them and the rule of law and they have refused.
Excellent article, thank you for posting. Provides an interesting clarity of thought and background.
There will be some on here that will shout caution to the remarks of “workers party” made by him.
Look at history and anyone can find what happens when big corporations start abusing the workers. I.E. Andrew Carnegie and Fricks management of his steel company, and the miners strike against Calumet and Heckla in the Copper Country in 1913 which resulted in the deaths of 73 children at Italian Hall, etc. Many more examples such as big coal and on and on.
This time it is the same. Crony capitalism using the government to abuse the most productive workers in the world to obtain cheap labor...same then, same now.
These cronys cant understand that a well taken care of work force equals massive profits and stability in their companies. All they think of is the bottom line and the hell with quality. That is what happens when pencil pushers start running companies.
Trump is more Conservative Republican that 99% of the rest of those who “define” themselves by those qualities.
Freepers need to Google Teddy Roosevelt’s Progressive Party 3rd party bid which causes hold some historic similarity to Trump’s campaign
I don’t think Trump is as much of a protectionist as he is someone who wants FAIR trade over FREE trade. And as someone who has supported Free trade in the past, I have come around to the argument that Free isn’t necessarily Fair. And since when was it bad for a Republican to be FOR workers?
Some pie for the average Joe equals landslide election victory.