I was surprised at what he said, too. But he never cleared up that he wasn’t endorsing union extortion, and he seemed to be saying corporations were wrong to want to avoid American unions—who indeed had some of “the best-paid workers in the world.” That can be good or bad.
Sure (wrt to being good or bad). Maybe he was assuming that it would be understood/ writing to his “usual” audience. He has a following (of which I am a proud member), so that would make sense to me. I’ve never noticed that he does that, but then, I probably wouldn’t.
It’s true. We did have some of “the best paid workers in the world”- union & non-union. That’s what makes this such an issue. In a relatively short time, we have gone from a socially & economically stable society, in general, to reaching a crisis point.
One of the things I have in common with Pat Buchanan is that, to some degree, I am almost an isolationist & a “Paleocon”. Unfettered “free trade” & globalism has, imho, been proved- not just a failure, but a disaster for the West. America’s a mess. Europe’s a mess. Everything has been shifted to the third world. Not so smart because some of that *isn’t* so stable. Will prosperity change that?
The globalists/ communists have really turned us inside out. It’s no surprise that the (now) multinational corporations are at the head of this. It wasn’t called that, but kind of the same structure was in play in the Soviet Union & more recently, China. Probably in national socialist Germany as well.