Trump’s Folly, Harris’ Opportunity: - Trade and the Hourly-Wage Worker - EDWARD GRESSER

Its mission is to develop and test new The party's history and legacy point in the themes, ideas, and policy proposals that can help same direction: Democrats do best when they Democrats and other center-left leaders make champion the economic aspirations and moral a new economic offer to working Americans, outlook of ordinary working Americans. [...] The next step is to offer a choice used the blurrier polysyllables and neologisms between Trumpism’s risks and resentments on Orwell disliked: “supply-chain resilience” one hand, and on the other a plan to lower costs (elastic meaning, vague relevance to daily life); for families, strengthen relations with America’s “neoliberalism” (baffling); “foreign policy for friends, and help workers raise th. [...] This the turn away from liberal internationalism and is a monumental effort, involving $182 billion multilateral tariff reduction backfired and gave up in annual auto and parts output, $23 billion in a chance to help workers earn more and multiply yearly auto-sector research and development,29 the Census/BEA counts of African-American, 1.1 million workers making parts and vehicles, women-owned, an. [...] automakers the time to develop the battery policy designed for a relatively small group of and mineral supply chains, the specialized labor, industrial-sector workers, and — remembering and information technologies they need, the that most hourly-wage workers are non-industrial Biden administration will have made the right — there’s something both unfair and inadequate choice, and its Harris-era s. [...] She work caring for children and older Americans? is right to insist on the centrality of alliances CONCLUSION among democracies, right to highlight the costs Returning finally to Orwell and to the fateful higher tariffs will impose on families, and right to choice a few weeks ahead.