Trump's tariffs get one thing right: capitalism is changing | Avram C Alpert

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : Trump is right that capitalism, in a period of untrammeled greed and injustice, needs a new spirit to show it the way.
67% : But Democrats also need to learn from Trump and emphasize the spirit.
63% : Hence the destroyed manufacturing bases where jobs were converted to low-wage poverty traps and where Trump now finds many of his most loyal supporters.
59% : Such non-economic justifications for economic policy are nothing new.
43% : By also pushing massive tax breaks for the wealthy, Trump is hoping that tariffs can provide rhetorical appeal without radically changing the social order.
42% : The tariffs help Trump make his claim that a way of life is under threat and he alone can protect it.
42% : That's why Trump blamed "globalists" for the dip in the stock market after the tariffs were announced: "A lot of [those selling stocks] are globalist countries and companies that won't be doing as well ... Because we're taking back things that have been taken from us many years ago."

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