Oct.10

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On Paper, Trump and Harris Agree on Most Issues

Listening to Kamala Harris and Donald Trump speak, one might think they totally and completely disagree on every issue. Surprisingly, that is not really true. They are actually pretty close on a large variety of issues, such as these:

• Stronger borders and tougher immigration laws
• A much tougher stance against China
• Increasing domestic energy production, including fracking
• Not over-regulating AI
• Providing incentives for companies to do manufacturing in the U.S. and not abroad
• Supporting Israel and its wars
• Offering parents more child-care assistance in various forms
• Protecting IVF treatment
• Opposing a national abortion ban (except Trump doesn't actually mean it)
• Protecting Social Security and Medicare
• Not taxing tipped income

The explanation is that the Democrats have been the party of the working class since Franklin Delano Roosevelt and have always been pro-worker. Now that Trump has remade the Republican Party with white working-class men as the base, he at least has to act pro-worker. Of course, Harris actually means what she says and Trump usually doesn't, but some workers don't get it. Also, to an extent, the blue-collar workers who are now Republicans are there because they hate gay people, trans people, minorities and pointy-headed college grads, and they think women belong in the house and not in the House. So all Trump has to do on the economic issues is give them a bit of lip service. (V)