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Related: About this forumDonald Trump Doesn't Understand Trade - Tomorrow's rally in WA should be a hoot. Here's why...
This first paragraph shown here from the WaPo piece is an excerpt from a Politico piece by Eli Stokols:
Figuring out how to triage a presidential campaign when youre bleeding in every swing state, all of which seem vital, is a difficult enough equation and thats without Trump spending time and resources last week in places that arent swing states at all. Trump sandwiched one rally in Tampa, Florida, between appearances in Texas and Mississippi, both solidly red states hes unlikely to lose. And on Friday, his campaign announced a rally to be held Tuesday outside Seattle in Everett, Washington, home to a Boeing plant that ships planes overseas a location thats well suited for Trump to rail against global trade deals but makes no sense electorally.
There are two ways in which that bolded sentence makes no sense, and its important to recognize both of them.
The first is the ships planes overseas part. Maybe Trump is so used to saying things like shipping jobs overseas he thinks that any kind of overseas shipping must be bad. In this case, however, whats being shipped overseas are U.S. exports, which I think even Trump might support. Indeed, Washington is Americas most trade-dependent state, and exports have been good for the local economy. Trumps China-bashing is not going to play well in a state that has felt the economic chill from Sino-American trade tensions. I dont think even Trump would be so ignorant as to bash U.S. exports, but I guess well find out tomorrow.
The second problem with that paragraph, however, is that Stokols seems to share Trumps confusion. Globalization isnt some Demogorgon stalking Washington state. To repeat myself: Everett, Wash., is not well suited for Trump to rail against global trade at all. Maybe one could make the case that Trumps speech is intended for a national audience, but his local audience will be one that benefits from the liberal trading order. Indeed, this seems like a guaranteed replay of Trumps past mistakes of not understanding the locale where he holds his rally.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/08/29/donald-trump-doesnt-understand-trade-or-the-politics-of-trade/?utm_term=.d22d785a32d8
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Donald Trump Doesn't Understand Trade - Tomorrow's rally in WA should be a hoot. Here's why... (Original Post)
Native
Aug 2016
OP
Unfortunately for him, he'll be speaking to a room full of people tomorrow who do understand trade.
Native
Aug 2016
#4
louis-t
(23,295 posts)1. Drumpf spending time in those states because
he risks turning them into swing states.
mcar
(42,334 posts)2. WA is already a blue state
pampango
(24,692 posts)3. Trade is one of many things Donald does not understand but thinks
appeal to his base (who usually don't understand them either).
Native
(5,942 posts)4. Unfortunately for him, he'll be speaking to a room full of people tomorrow who do understand trade.
MattP
(3,304 posts)5. They are shipping Boeing jobs to a unregulated non-union hellhole, South Carolina
pampango
(24,692 posts)6. Donald will tell you that 'right-to-work' is a great thing and that the whole country should be like
South Carolina.
MFM008
(19,816 posts)7. If I could get there
I would protest the fool.
Pisses me off he came to the western side
Of the state.