• MEDIA: Pat's Protectionism Redux (2): The Geopolitical Case

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 18 11:49:49 2025
    Peter Brimelow on whether Donald Trump will award Pat Buchanan
    the Presidential Medal for Freedom: <URL:https://www.peterbrimelow.com/p/pats-protectionism-redux-2-the-political> | This is the group that is suffering most from two other policies
    | that Mr. Buchanan attacks, to the embarrassment of Washington
    | conservatives: Affirmative Action and immigration. Affirmative
    | Action--code for racial quotas in employment-- has put politics in
    | command of large parts of the American economy without a peep from
    | those economists who are scandalized by the thought of tariffs,
    | although these are just another form of tax. Immigrants,
    | predominantly from the Third World, who are immediately eligible for
    | affirmative action quotas, are at record levels.

    What will be the foreign born population in Howard Lutnick's Census.GOV
    head counts and share of the American labor market in Lori Chavez-
    DeRemer's BLS.GOV surveys at the end of Trump's second term and how
    does Susie Wiles advise Peter Thiel and his JD Vance 2028 presidential exploratory committee to sell the hard facts on the ground to legacy
    American proles who thought they voted against their dispossession in
    2024?
    John
    groenveld@acm.org
    --
    "Why can't the New York middle class go to an historically
    disadvantaged POC neighborhood or region and hire an "au pair"?" -
    Second City Bureaucrat <URL:https://twitter.com/CityBureaucrat/status/1252934731408314368>

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