Thom says Trump will run on immigration and trade policies that appeal to his working class base- better get ready! Laurie Wallach talks China and NAFTA while Jamal Abdi briefs Thom on the situation with Iran. Plus- Common Cause on Trump's plan to undercount Latinos on the census.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 31 May 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Trump is going to run a campaign based on immigration and trade policies that lead to good American jobs for working class people. Thom warns that Democrats need to think how to respond to Trump with policies that support the creation of good jobs for common people. ~~~ The National Iranian American Council's Jamal Abdhi considers the chances that the Iranian regime will respond positively to Trump's tough guy tactics. ~~~ Public Citizen's 'Global Trade Watch' president Laurie Wallach has the latest news and issues with the issues surrounding tariffs.Maurice in Chicago talks China, and Nicholas in Mexico reports on the progressive actions taken by Mexico's AMLO that has some corrupt fat cats sitting in prison. ~~~ Bob Phillips of Common Cause has the smoking gun- a trove of documents that show that the Republicans are knowingly practicing racial gerrymandering by frightening Hispanics into not answering the 2020 census. ~~~ Luke Vargas, chief foreign correspondent for Talk Media News, shares his informed take on Trump's trade policies. ~~~ Plus, Thom's more interesting callers add dimension to the discussion on trade, tariffs, and immigration.
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| 0:40.3 | Donald Trump has basically laid out his re-election strategy for 2020 and I think it's really important that we all figure this out. |
| 0:50.0 | Donald Trump is saying basically to white working class people that he gets it, that it's all about jobs. |
| 1:00.0 | It's not all about the economy necessarily. |
| 1:02.8 | White working class people are not invested in the stock market. |
| 1:05.2 | If the stock market goes down, not that big a deal. |
| 1:08.0 | But they are concerned about jobs. |
| 1:10.3 | And this is Trump's base. |
| 1:11.8 | And they get that the two things since Reaganism took over the United States essentially, |
| 1:17.5 | and no president, Republican or Democrat has yet rolled back Reaganism. We are still in that era of neoliberal free trade and that kind of stuff. |
| 1:27.4 | And Trump gets this, by the way, and the Democrats have been saying this forever. |
| 1:32.2 | And Trump is campaigning basically an old democratic talking |
| 1:35.6 | points, old progressive democratic positions. If you don't enforce your own |
| 1:40.5 | immigration laws within your own country or at least your own laws that have to do with |
| 1:44.8 | who's working where and when. If you don't enforce those laws, you're going to end up deluding |
| 1:49.2 | your labor force which is going to drive down wages. So Trump is positioning his anti-immigrant |
| 1:54.9 | rant, which was basically a racist rant, also as a jobs rant. And you can |
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