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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by remarkEon on Monday May 18, 2020 @02:05PM (#23226090)
I think that's a bit of a selective history though. In the 1990s there were plenty of politicians that fervently supported it, though the reasons they supported probably had something to do with this[1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_fi...

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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by bobthepanda on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:53PM (#23230537)
The parent comment implied that the US has done a very sudden turnaround of belief; that's a selective reading of history.

The US has always had undertones of economic nationalism, particularly around jobs getting outsourced to China. It just took a while for the pot to boil over.

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