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All jobs exported to other countries, e.g. China, where those same jobs are increasingly subject to automation. Republicans historically don't support labor mo
by cmurf 10y ago
All jobs exported to other countries, e.g. China, where those same jobs are increasingly subject to automation.
Republicans historically don't support labor movements, they've supported breaking up unions. Democrats created a vacuum by supporting the environment over the worker.
It is way too soon to know whether Trump voters will experience buyer's remorse. The real question is hardly even Trump, it's whether Republicans will sign on to this new idea of defending the worker, defending their job, protectionism, and even a trade war in the form of tariffs as promised by the leader of the party. If it's true Trump represents non-establishment, and threatens its existence, we can expect at some point Democrats and Republicans will figure out a way to throw him under the bus. That he spends more time feeding his narcissism by punching down, and sending his press secretary to lie on TV on the level of 2+2 does not equal 4, he will squander any ability to form the political barriers he will need to survive 4 years let alone 8.
The 200 year history of parties getting the presidency 3 terms in a row shows how rare it is. I think that's a bigger factor in the election, that people were sufficiently less enthusiastic about Hillary rather than enthusiastic about Trump, and in fact the raw numbers support that. Likewise that 200 year history shows it's even more rare for a president who loses the popular vote, but wins the electoral college, to win a 2nd term.
Does Trump stop his TV show inspired pissing matches? Those are appealing to some degree by angry voters during a campaign, but broadly very distasteful and unbecoming of a president. To be a successful president he's going to have to stop getting hung up in minutiae of his own creation.
Do Republicans or Democrats (or both) have some sort of transformative realignment, necessarily demoting previous priorities in doing so, or do they collude together to make an outsider president, already acting like a nut case as he keeps stepping on his own dick, an unwitting scape goat and destroy him in favor of Pence, a stable predictable known quantity?