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Free trade and cheap labour are republican policies though. That's what the republican god Reagan was all about
by 8note 5y ago
Free trade and cheap labour are republican policies though. That's what the republican god Reagan was all about
- brimble 5y agoRepublicans and Democrats alike bought into neo-liberalism entirely, no later than 1990 (though, yes, it did start on the R side). The leaders and presidential candidates of the big two parties have consistently been on board with it, with the only big exception being... Trump. Meanwhile, neo-liberalism has been and remains unpopular with the electorate on "both sides" (which is why Trump was able to leverage that gap between voter preferences and the standard party platform)