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Trump Organization doesn't own factories, they own hotels, apartment buildings, resorts and golf courses. You might be thinking of other companies which license the Trump name and manufacture their own products.
It doesn't matter how much money Trump has if he helps the Forgotten Man and Forgotten Woman by eliminating hundreds of business regulations so people can start their own businesses, creating jobs by making the US a more favorable business climate to foreign manufacturers, the Keystone and Dakota pipelines created thousands of jobs, new coal mines, etc. Too much to type out here. Check the White House website or youtube channel for details. Opposition media censors your news. .
The poster above you makes a sad but true point. There was no good reason to pick all the wall street types for cabinet positions.
Gary Cohn, McMaster and Kelley were all well-known Hillary supporters too.
But by far, Trump's worst pick of all was Jared Kushner, as he is the one who talked Trump into Cohn, Kelly, and McMaster.
Of all people, it's very unfortunate the American people have to be stuck with Jared Kushner.
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One of the biggest cons of 2016 was convincing a bunch of people that he wasn't actually what you describe above. He is as "globalist" as they come. He's just good at convincing you that he is not.
The only thing he's ever convinced me that he is not is honest.
"The first thing you have to get through is a corrupt and incompetent Republican establishment. The Republican establishment on Capitol Hill has not had any support for President Trump [or] … his populist-nationalist conservative agenda, populist-nationalist conservative ideas, or his populist, conservative, nationalist program. You know why? They’re not populist; they’re elitist. They’re not nationalists; they’re globalists. They are not conservative; they are liberal. And that is what we’ve got to fight every day.
I would have to agree to some extent about his portrayal of the Republican establishment. It has been the Republican party's good fortune to find itself as the mouthpiece and advocate for the super-rich and big business. And yes, that means anyone with the money to support them, including multi-national corporations with no real sense of American identity nor obligation. Global commerce and industry.
But to somehow claim or imply that Mr Trump is not in the thick with them is to peddle an alternative reality. Trump's cabinet appointments should be witness enough, as are his international business dealings. Steve Bannon is manipulating the truth.
One might think Bannon is some kind of herald for the American workman, blowing a clarion call for the people. In fact he is a shill for the rich, harnessing the common working person's anger to advance the Republican agenda he claims to detest.
Completely delusional. The death of small business was and is caused by big business, corporate mergers and vertical integration. But you guys are the party that understands business so you probably knew that which would make your post....l
I agree.
When the Republican party began, it absorbed a lot of Whigs (as that party collapsed) and these were shopkeepers and professionals for the most part. Apothecaries, attorneys, green grocers and owners of inns and hotels, mills, bankers, small manufacturers and ship owners. That sort of thing.
The Republicans also absorbed the Know Nothing party (no kidding, that's what people called them).
Lincoln was an attorney, and a member of the Whig party. He made money representing the railroad industry. Shifting into the new Republican party was a natural decision for him.
The Republicans, as the Whigs before them did a very good job of representing business interests. But American business began to evolve away from the smaller family owed set ups. The economy started to see the very large joint-stock companies emerge, and these very often drove the smaller business out of existence.
Beginning with the US war between the states many smaller concerns grew large on Federal government contracts, and these successful larger entities had greater influence in the party than the small shopkeepers. Where the interests of the smaller shopkeeper and the bigger companies converged, it worked well.
Trends continued that way ... as an example Walgreens drove hundreds of independent pharmacists out of business, most of the owners were probably Republicans, but so was Walgreen, and his money supporting the Republican party could give him the kind of influence in local, state and federal government small shopkeepers could never have.
Today the Republican party represents the interests of the very large businesses with international concerns. The Walmart, the General Electric, the JP Morgan Chase. The enormous pharmaceutical industry. Dow, Monsanto and Archer Daniels Midland. The voice of the little people, the workers and small shopkeepers has been all but drowned out, nearly completely.
The Republican party is truly a globalist institution.
Completely delusional. The death of small business was and is caused by big business, corporate mergers and vertical integration. But you guys are the party that understands business so you probably knew that which would make your post....l
Yet Obama was president in 2015
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Both establishment parties are globalist. This is what we are stuck with. At least Trump might throw a bone here and there to maintain the base's loyalty. The progressives want it all while they laugh at the working man/woman.
Both establishment parties are globalist. This is what we are stuck with. At least Trump might throw a bone here and there to maintain the base's loyalty. The progressives want it all while they laugh at the working man/woman.
Throw a bone, like throwing a rally?
LOL
You've been suckered, Trump is a billionaire who has companies all over the entire world. His cabinet is filled with billionaires and Wall Street international investors.
The Republican establishment on Capitol Hill has not had any support for President Trump [or] … his populist-nationalist conservative agenda, populist-nationalist conservative ideas, or his populist, conservative, nationalist program..
Trump has a reactionary agenda, not a conservative one.
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