Reply #35: What I'd like to see is the Democrats actually take on the issue of trade

[Armstead]

Trump is crazy and hypocritical with his MFing threats against China, and his claims that he could single-handedly bully the Saudis and OPEC into lowering oil prices.

However, I do think that reactionary populists like him and Perot and even Pat Buchanan are hitting on a nugget of truth in terms of how Corporate America has CONvinced the country into backing so-called "free trade" policies in which we have sold out our economy by abandoning any form of protectionism and embracing the creation of a global jungle...We did allow corporations and money men to sell us out to China by shipping jobs and factories there and letting ourselves be put into a position where they can now blackmail us.

Americans accurately realize in their gut that the American economy has been ransacked (although they often mistake who is doing the ransacking), which is one reason they respond to Dolts like Donald.

What I would REALLY like to see is the Democrats stop kissing the collective butts of Wall St. and Corporate oligarchs and right-wing economists, and instead put protection of the economy into a Progressive populist framework of policies that actually do protect the domestic economy and workers while also engaging with the world on a "fair trade" basis that lifts all boats rather than pushing us on a race to the bottom.

"The fault dear Brutus, lies not in our stars but in ourselves."