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Re:Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer... by sangnoir on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @01:49PM (#43093548)
> There’s a reason the American left opposed free trade until five minutes ago

I don't know on what scale your clock runs on, but Bill Clinton's "Third Way" campaign was 35 years ago. China's admission into the WTO was under the Clinton administration. If 5 minutes is a generation, America isn't 2 hours old yet on your clock.

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Re:Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer... by gruez on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @02:39PM (#43094068)
>but Bill Clinton's "Third Way" campaign was 35 years ago. China's admission into the WTO was under the Clinton administration.

I thought the support was bipartisan? For instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93China_Re...

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Re:Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer... by sangnoir on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @02:56PM (#43094245)
It was bipartisan because the Democratic party swung rightwards (towards the center) on economic policy under Clinton with the said "Third way[1]", which combined being socially progressive with economic liberalism, i.e. cozying up to employers rather than workers, which was the Democratic party's former schtick until they lost a couple of presidential elections in a row through the 1980s.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way

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Re:Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer... by rayiner on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @07:59PM (#43109844)
It wasn’t quite bipartisan. Only a minority of democrats in the house (108 of 258) voted for nafta for example. Large swaths of the Democratic Party opposed free trade until Obama.
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