Sure, people want free shipping and do like Amazon's convenience; but they also want Amazon to pay taxes to help pay for the USPS infrastructure that allows for rural and far-flung communities to receive *subsidized* delivery. This stuff is obvious once you step out of DC-bubble.
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Replying to @zeynep
i'm sort of unclear who Trump is appealing to with this attack though; i see there's a urban/rural divide of some sort… but, it's messy, unclear how it would shake out. or, is the existence of the divide all that matters?
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Replying to @jeffbigham @zeynep
Isn't it simpler than that - an attack against the 1%, who profit at the expense of the US? Looking at it as a rural-urban thing seems to me like quite an urban style of categorisation.
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Replying to @JulianSayarer @zeynep
yeah, but this particular attack on amazon doesn't really seem to hold up … my understanding is the USPS overall benefits from amazon business, a lot, it's just that USPS price structure means urban subsidizes rural?
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but, i'm nitpicking. i think the argument doesn't have to hold up, b/c anywhere there's a divide between rural/urban, trump can just say random things about how unfair somebody's being to the US, and ppl fall into their camps
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I agree this particular attack won't work (the overlap isn't aligned politically) but he can sometimes manage this in a way that blindsides DC-bubble—but more importantly, there will be more competent versions of this, right or left.
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