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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by FrustratedMonky on Thursday April 03, 2025 @09:26AM (#43569284)
"Democrats embraced free trade and globalism with Clinton"

History would disagree with this. Republicans and Big Business were always for free trade and globalism.

Because in 80's-90's, big-corp was salivating over that sweet cheap-cheap foreign labor. To put this on Democrats is a retcon.

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by rayiner on Thursday April 03, 2025 @09:37AM (#43569424)
No, I agree with you. My point is that Democrats embraced it in the 1990s as well. So the Republicans who were otherwise liberals but just in the GOP for the cheap foreign labor switched sides.
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