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Honestly, I was under impression Democrats were for tariffs :-) I guess I was unnecessarily worried that Democrats love tariffs. It is the other way around now.
by tlogan 2y ago
Honestly, I was under impression Democrats were for tariffs :-) I guess I was unnecessarily worried that Democrats love tariffs. It is the other way around now.
I do remember this speech by Bernie Sanders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzpmhBEA9Ok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzpmhBEA9Ok
- vitus 2y agoYeah, Bernie Sanders has consistently staked out a number of protectionist / populist positions, but he is not representative of the Democratic party as a whole. In case you're wondering, the resolution in question failed with large margins in both parties (although it garnered a somewhat larger share of D votes -- 23% versus 17%). https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2005239 https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2005239 Outside of a few limited occurrences, from 1980 up to the early 2010s, both Republicans and Democrats generally supported free trade and lowering tariffs. (This may extend all the way back to 1934, but I haven't checked all the votes in Congress to see, for instance, if this sentiment extended beyond Eisenhower to the rest of his party in the 1950s.)