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In reply to the discussion: Email from Keith Ellison re: the TPP and the Democratic Platform Committee. [View all]pampango
(24,692 posts)foreigners and trade in order to convince voters not to listen to racists and nativists?
OR we educate them that FDR policies like progressive taxes, a stronger safety net, stronger unions work better than the isolation offered by Trump and his long-deceased mentor, Herbert Hoover. Blaming the relatively little trade that the US has for our problems may be an effective campaign tactic (Trump certainly hopes so), if we can out-Trump Trump, but it sets us up for a backlash when the problems continue after trade gets smaller and smaller as they did for Mr. Hoover.
We control corporations by regulating them like FDR did. He expanded trade and worked with other countries on trade and other issues and controlled corporations. He was quite popular with average Americans if not with 1%.