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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Is Vulnerable on Trade
June 8, 2019 at 7:23 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Neil Irwin: To President Trump, tariff is a beautiful word indeed. Just in the last few weeks, he increased tariffs on billions of Chinese imports and threatened Mexico with big new tariffs.
His enthusiasm as trade-warrior-in-chief, though, has not been mirrored by the public. At least that is the conclusion to draw from opinion polling, which shows a rise in enthusiasm for trade deals and suggests an opening that the Democratic presidential nominee could have in the 2020 election.
That nominee could, strange as it may seem, have a pathway to take on Mr. Trump on a signature issue by simultaneously attacking him from the right, as being anti-business, and from the left, as being bad for workers.
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Trump Is Vulnerable on Trade (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jun 2019
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I agree. Anybody who took 5 minutes to find out about it would of realized that it was a good thing
UniteFightBack
Jun 2019
#3
We have at least three Democratic candidates running on the same Nationalism, America Firstism, and
Hoyt
Jun 2019
#2
He sure is vulnerable. If we had tried this tactic with our friends and allies along side us
UniteFightBack
Jun 2019
#4
riverine
(516 posts)1. Only from Biden and a few others that supported the TPP.
The TPP was a huge lost opportunity to set the trade roles not only for North America but the entire Pacific Rim.
Warren and Sanders fucked up on there.
But the populist nationalist political climate of this decade despises all "globalism".
President Obama is the ultimate "globalist".
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)3. I agree. Anybody who took 5 minutes to find out about it would of realized that it was a good thing
Including plenty of people on here.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)2. We have at least three Democratic candidates running on the same Nationalism, America Firstism, and
the new "Economic Patriotism," that contributed to trump's election. Hope they reconsider.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)4. He sure is vulnerable. If we had tried this tactic with our friends and allies along side us
perhaps this could of worked. But we are going it alone and HE WILL FAIL.