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For the past decade or so, the Republicans have generally been the ones who've worried about America's industries being offshored to China and the Democrats hav
by makomk 7y ago
For the past decade or so, the Republicans have generally been the ones who've worried about America's industries being offshored to China and the Democrats have been the ones who've downplayed those concerns as xenophobic nationalism from people who're stuck in the 50s. I've no doubt there'll be an attempt to rewrite history on this, but insofar as this has been a partisan divide it's been the other way around.
- cmurf 7y agoIt's nonsense to say Republicans worry about offshoring. They consistently oppose amendments and bills trying to stop it. They consistently support tax policies that incentivize it. https://aflcio.org/2017/11/8/republicans-defeat-stop-outsourcing-american-jobs-amendment https://aflcio.org/2017/11/8/republicans-defeat-stop-outsour... https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/396288-the-gop-tax-bill-rewards-offshoring-heres-what-we-can-do https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/39628... Republicans have been pro-global free trade for decades, until Donald Trump won the presidency on a protectionist platform. Republicans in Congress were opposed to Trump's tariffs before rolling over and at least not fighting him on them. But as most of their campaign contributions come from pro-global free trade and not domestic labor, they still consistently oppose amendments trying to reign in offshoring. Their "worry" is only that they'd get caught having a public message that's different than their actual votes on legislation. The Democratic party, for decades, have been pro-labor and pro-union platform. And it's fair to say in the past decade they are split between moderate free trade and weak support of domestic labor and unions. This weakness no doubt cost them votes in 2016.