Trump and his billionaire toadies like Howard Lutnik and Scott Bessent are peddling a dangerous lie to working-class Americans.
They're strutting around claiming their tariffs will bring back "good paying jobs" with "great benefits," while actively undermining the very thing that made manufacturing jobs valuable to working people in the first place: unions.
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"Let's be crystal clear about what's really happening:
Without strong unions, bringing manufacturing back to America will simply create more sweatshop opportunities where desperate workers earn between $7.25 and $15 an hour with zero benefits and zero security."
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"While Republicans babble endlessly about "job creators," they fundamentally misunderstand " or deliberately obscure " how a nation's true wealth is actually generated.
It's not through Wall Street speculation or billionaire tax breaks. It's through making things of value; the exact activity their donor class has eagerly shipped overseas for decades while pocketing the difference.
There's a profound economic reason to bring manufacturing home that Adam Smith laid out in 1776 and Alexander Hamilton amplified in 1791 when he presented his vision for turning America into a manufacturing powerhouse.
It's the fundamental principle behind Smith's book "The Wealth of Nations" that I explain in detail in The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America.".
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