ou don’t jump wages 5X by government mandate, especially when a foreign nation (the US in this case) forces it on you.
Agreed. The point is to keep our corporatists from shipping our jobs to Mexico. If they can’t pay dirt wages there, they’ll keep the jobs in the states that voted for Trump for exactly this reason - to protect and rebuild our manufacturing. Your libertarian philosophy is why the GOP (Romney , Mc Cain, Bush) couldn’t win these states. Trump won them by promising to make American manufacturing great again, and to stop shipping jobs to Mexico
Yes indeed. America took a thirty year test drive of “free trade”.
In 2016 we handed the keys back and said “no sale”.
Today there are not enough voters out there who believe in neoliberal free trade theory to win elections any longer. Ideological purity has become a losing strategy.
The GOP fails to heed this lesson at their peril.