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No, I\u2019m not talking about the Free College that gets the young \u2018uns excited. \u00a0Nor the single payer healthcare system, nor the $15\/hr minimum wage.<\/p>\n

But each of the two of them promises protectionism. \u00a0They promise a narrow protectionism of trade restrictions, and ending existing trade deals such as NAFTA, and a broader platform of unspecified measures to bring offshored jobs back to the United States, and to prevent companies from moving additional production out of the country. \u00a0Have you noticed that each of them has separately criticized Nabisco for moving jobs to Mexico?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s as if we have a replay of the 1992 election \u2014 all we need is for these two candidates to start talking about the \u201cgiant sucking sound<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

And their other promises are really two sides of the same coin: \u00a0Trump offers protection in the form of a deportation program for illegal immigrants, to protect Americans from job loss, wage undercutting, social welfare costs, and crime risks. \u00a0(It may be a stretch, but Trump\u2019s Muslim Moratorium is also about protection \u2014 protecting the Homeland from terrorism.) \u00a0Sanders offers protection from wage-stagnation via his $15\/hour wage, and offers a massive government jobs program<\/a> via infrastructure spending, creating 13 million (short-term?) jobs.<\/p>\n

As far as healthcare, yes, Sanders offers single payer, but Trump, for months, before revealing mostly emptiness, promised \u201cwe\u2019re going to take care of everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clinton? \u00a0Well, I don\u2019t really know if her new protectionist impulse is genuine or not, given Bill Clinton\u2019s record of support for free trade. \u00a0Hence, I\u2019m not really interested in parsing her statements, because they seem to be in response to Sanders. \u00a0Cruz and Rubio certainly don\u2019t take this approach, instead calling for regulatory and other reform to help American companies be more competitive, and not offering a specific remedy for Americans adversely affected by globalization, so far as I know.<\/p>\n

Now, of course, you\u2019ll tell me, these men are nothing alike. \u00a0Trump\u2019s record is of personal support for job offshoring, in terms of the manufacture of Trump-branded items. \u00a0And Sanders\u2019 promises are largely pie-in-the-sky, but he believes in them passionately, unlike Trump, who has merely assessed the political mood. \u00a0But I\u2019m not talking about what these men believe in so much as what their supporters do. \u00a0And maybe Sanders\u2019 protectionism is a small piece of his platform, of not much interest to anyone, and the promises of free college (which, incidentally, is intended to be accomplished through a Rube Goldbergian set of mechanisms<\/a>, and is only for public schools) and of a $15 minimum wage (which, in case you\u2019ve forgotten, would have tremendous impacts, far beyond fast-food workers, because so many skilled occupations<\/a> pay below $15\/hour, or modestly above), and of Medicaid for All (the proposal for which, even in what\u2019s labelled as the \u201cfull plan\u201d on his website<\/a>, doesn\u2019t answer the key question of how the government will set reimbursement levels or determine access to particular treatments) are the big lures for his supporters.<\/p>\n

But isn\u2019t it rather significant that this is the political mood, that these two upstart candidates preach fundamentally the same protectionist gospel? \u00a0It\u2019s \u201cthe economy, stupid,\u201d again, as both these candidates offer hope to their supporters, who feel that globalization has failed them.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"