Bernie's Son, Levi Sanders, Thinks Trumps Tariff Proposal Is a "Good Idea"

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If all you care about is your own welfare, this can work for you. The same way the recent tax cuts worked for the middle class. You will get some more money, keep jobs for a few more years. Your bosses will buy the Mercedes with the leather lined trunk. And all of those not working in steel, but with steel, will see their jobs go overseas. You will, to a degree, certainly help your members and yourselves.

But in the great heyday of unions, back when they actually wielded clout and didn't have to grovel to some orange monkey for giving them a favor (which he didn't intend), back in those days, what made unions powerful was solidarity. When group of workers needed help, unions with more clout joined with them, had their backs. And it was reciprocated. Unions work when pilots strike with stewardesses, when truckers strike with printers. If a union is just another self-interest group willing to make a deal with whatever bigwig will bless them with a couple months of work, then they become the same as corporations, but without the life span.

Better than getting trump to toss you crumbs would be a union movement that would make it impossible for him to build a hotel with foreign steel (which he has done exclusively) because no steeplejack would climb Chinese steel, no welder would torch Mexican steel.

(It is all moot anyway. Once your hero has his win in the November elections, he will go back to getting cheap steel wherever he can. Your gratitude is a political tool for him. Your trust and fawning are misplaced.)