We knew he was a nationalist but it is nonetheless chilling to learn that he now openly embraces the term. Especially in the context of going after globalists, which means Jews.https://twitter.com/rvawonk/status/1054528956962091008 …
Disagree. More about economic policy. Probably trying to keep the base distracted with cultural platitudes while the tariffs start to bite more.
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Weimar was about economics as well.
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Vast oversimplification. Moreover, the only genuine scapegoating I see here is against foreign manufacturers and illegal immigration. The 'globalist' term is used against the ideology of open borders -- vs. earlier 'internationalism' collaborating at a distance.
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Globalism itself is largely about economics as well, granted-- greater levels of access tend to promote greater synergies in production and development. But proper strategy is required. Naive openness leads to exploitation by economic dynamics-- impersonal equilibria.
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Anyway-- to your point, yes, economic pressures on the lower middle class can indeed pose real danger to the upper and upper middle classes and to groups that on average tend to be associated with them. But that is an argument for avoiding cutting them off....
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One may debate the means, but at a bare minimum it must be acknowledged that illegal immigration by low-skilled workers has been repeatedly demonstrated to reduce employment rates and compensation among the existing lower middle class. Shoring up policy there is protective.
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Here are some empirical studies-- http://www.nber.org/chapters/c11773.pdf … https://www.dallasfed.org/assets/documents/research/papers/2003/wp0302.pdf … Even the Urban Institute admits there is large scale displacement and declining workforce participation among lower skilled natives-- https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/46381/411426-Trends-in-the-Low-Wage-Immigrant-Labor-Force---.PDF …
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Of course, there are plenty of 'simulation' papers trying to claim the opposite, but this is meaningless against actual empirical data. I can simulate a world with whichever rules I wish, but that does not make it real.
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