Posted on 02/10/2021 3:34:55 PM PST by dalight
Returning those jobs to America, along with ending foreign wars and illegal immigration, was the core policy promise of Donald Trump’s presidency, and the source of his surprise victory in 2016. Trump was hardly the first to make the case that the corporate and political establishment’s trade relationship with China had sold out ordinary Americans. Former Democratic congressman and 1988 presidential candidate Richard Gephardt was the leading voice in an important but finally not very influential group of elected Democratic Party officials and policy experts who warned that trading with a state that employed slave labor would cost American jobs and sacrifice American honor. The only people who took Trump seriously were the more than 60 million American voters who believed him when he said he’d fight the elites to get those jobs back.
What he called “The Swamp” appeared at first just to be a random assortment of industries, institutions, and personalities that seemed to have nothing in common, outside of the fact they were excoriated by the newly elected president. But Trump’s incessant attacks on that elite gave them collective self-awareness as well as a powerful motive for solidarity. Together, they saw that they represented a nexus of public and private sector interests that shared not only the same prejudices and hatreds, cultural tastes and consumer habits but also the same center of gravity—the U.S.-China relationship. And so, the China Class was born.
Connections that might have once seemed tenuous or nonexistent now became lucid under the light of Trump’s scorn, and the reciprocal scorn of the elite that loathed him.
(Excerpt) Read more at tabletmag.com ...
We have been playing their game for too long. Time to start getting inside of their OOD loop and explaining why Americans need to be allowed to govern ourselves and the "so called" elites, they just don't matter.
He blames Trump?
(I can’t read it. My old tablet won’t open Tablet).
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The National Guard is in DC armed and protecting the ChiComs.
Each guard there is a traitor to this nation.
USA Plutocracy - bump for later....
What a stupid remark!
Says that Trump hate brought these folks together.
Have to finish it later.
Lays it out and names names.
That's what we need.
Biden is so compromised by the Chinese, even the elites can't save him or themselves from this nightmare of an election.
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Bkmk
No, he lays out all the conspirators in this new installation of tyranny - the left, the media, the Dems, big tech, the big corporations...and China. And he names names.
Try to read it somewhere. It’s a long article, but brilliant.
I must recommend this excellent essay.
I just ran into thei article, on account of a retweet by Molli Hemmingway. Followed the lead, not may posts, and ran into a tweet that referred to this Lee Smith piece,
A really good piece. Our government is in it for themselves, certainly has disdain for the public. That’s why no meaningful action on big issues. Their bread is buttered .... at public expense.
Indeed.
So Americans became prey to an anti-democratic elite that used the coronavirus to demoralize them; lay waste to small businesses; leave them vulnerable to rioters who are free to steal, burn, and kill; keep their children from school and the dying from the last embrace of their loved ones; and desecrate American history, culture, and society; and defame the country as systemically racist in order to furnish the predicate for why ordinary Americans in fact deserved the hell that the elite's private and public sector proxies had already prepared for them.For nearly a year, American officials have purposefully laid waste to our economy and society for the sole purpose of arrogating more power to themselves while the Chinese economy has gained on America's. ...
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