This is

CBS I and the world. I'm John Bachelor.

An election year, the differences between the parties important,

the differences between the candidates important.

or I welcome Verenique to Regi of the Mercata Center writing at Greater Syndicate about the

surprising not just similarities, duplication of both parties, conservative

populism and liberal populism, progressive populism, radical MAGA populism, all come together on major issues that cost us money.

Verenica, a very good evening to you.

It wasn't until you put them next to each other. I saw they're the same thing.

Populism, whether it's right or left, believes in protectionism. What does that mean and why do they practice it?

Why do they practice it? Why do they practice it? I'm not exactly sure except that the incentive within government is always,

certainly for politicians is always to get reelected and it used to be right that we had

two sides whom while when they were in power they were behaving not as differently as I would have wished,

but who at the very least to try to get elected saw that there was a benefit to

differentiation on economics and now it's not the case I think, I mean, it's very clear that a lot of the in the last seven years,

the Republican Party has had no problem saying a lot of things and supporting a lot of policies that they would have never supported in the past such as protectionism and and industrial policy.

Meanwhile, I think the way they differentiate themselves is on the

cultural war. So what we have here is a cynical exploitation of the American

taxpayer by protecting their union friends or their lobby friends or their

states and they claim they're defending us.

So this is tariffs. I noted the lack of irony to observe that the

Trump tariffs that were decried, I believe believe during his time in office have largely been

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