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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Assuming you are asking in good faith, globalization of the economy has been great for many Americans,  leading to cheaper goods and high paying jobs for elite, knowledge-based industries.

Shipping manufacturing overseas and importing cheap labor from other countries has hurt the Americans who used to be able to support a family on blue collar jobs.  We went from having a strong, sufficient  lower middle class to being stratified between high income cities and  leafy coastal suburbs and  hollowed out, opioid-addicted, zero job inner cities and small towns.

Yes, those people can take their government checks to buy cheap imports from China at Walmart, but that doesn't replace the communities and jobs they have lost.[/quote]

But how do Republican policies help them?[/quote]

Trump's protectionism has helped workers all over the country - admittedly, his protectionism is a relic of the 80s, but even today can be sold as being in the interest of national security, which is a Republican concern rather than Democrat.[/quote]

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