I was about to say Bernie literally used to give speeches about how immigrants were why the American worker couldn’t get a living wage and how he would use tariffs to force companies to use American labor and price out cheap foreign goods.
Bernie has supported tariffs in a very targeted manner against countries that use exploitative labor practices (such as child labor), to penalize companies that try to offshore, and for environmental purposes. Trump, well he just applied it to the entire world without really telling anyone wtf he actually wants in specific terms.
You’re right, it shouldn’t be, but as soon as you bring up the discussion of how illegal labor directly impacts lower class neighborhoods by ruining the job market, people will start calling you a racist.
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u/MapleDansk 1d ago
I like the timeline with Bernie as president better.
But maybe I should grow a goatee, considering the timeline I exist.