When a former Bain Capital Partner, and a Bernie loving Democratic Socialist agree on everything...

Also, that these aren't the days of parties holding power for decades. Produce for the worker, or die a political death.

Trump hasn't done shit for blue collar workers. They maybe benefitting from a strong economy, but if that changes the barbarians are going to be banging down the gates again. He has also created optics which have reduced immigration, which isn't a long term solution.

The days of kick the can down the road politics is quickly coming to an end. Produce, or your party will be back in the minority so fast it will make their heads spin.

This article is as much a warning to Trump, as it is to the Chamber of Commerce

Yeesh. I overestimated you on that one. Mick is right.

There's no reason at all to think that racial resentment plus oligarchic policy plus demonization of the opposition can't continue to win elections.
 
Yeesh. I overestimated you on that one. Mick is right.

There's no reason at all to think that racial resentment plus oligarchic policy plus demonization of the opposition can't continue to win elections.
"On both sides".
 
Blue-collar jobseekers also find 60 million foreign-born adults and their native-born adult children, including 35 million largely low-skilled Hispanic adults, looking to the same small pool of talented entrepreneurs to create competitive, high-wage blue-collar jobs for them. Spreading talent over more low-skilled workers slows low-skilled productivity and wage growth

So it does not help blue collar workers at all then.
 
That formula can only win elections for the right.
Incorrect-- as incorrect as Trump when he said that, but I can tell you want to believe the sum of truth reflects his fraction of understanding.

The past isn't the present, and the present isn't the future.
 
Free-market Republicans have zero chance of building a new coalition around free-market politics or policy: conservative or otherwise. It isn't popular on either side.

Eventually the voters figured out that "free trade" is code for "rape."
 
Incorrect-- as incorrect as Trump when he said that, but I can tell you want to believe the sum of truth reflects his fraction of understanding.

The past isn't the present, and the present isn't the future.

My statement is correct. You can look up the numbers for yourself to confirm.
 
Yeesh. I overestimated you on that one. Mick is right.

There's no reason at all to think that racial resentment plus oligarchic policy plus demonization of the opposition can't continue to win elections.

Their is. You guys still haven't learned the lesson of Trump's election. It isn't a blip on the radar. It is the new status quo.

Jack, I'm not sure if you really understand my point here. You can win an election on marketing and lies, Trump proved that is more true than ever. My point is that the Republicans are going to get swept out of control by 2020. When the Dems take power, if they do not deliver on substantial solutions to the systemic wealth inequality issue, they will be swept out of power by 2024. This is the new normal.
 
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So it does not help blue collar workers at all then.

So if you only let in high skill immigration, that would reduce the supply of low skilled workers to compete with in the US. That benefits blue collar workers.

It also benefits high skill workers, because high skill workers are the entrpenuers that create more high and low skill jobs.
 
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