• MEDIA: The Danger of Attempting to Harness Trumpism Without Trump

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 14 11:28:01 2021
    Pedro Gonzalez for National Interest on whether Joe Biden will
    run to Donald Trump's right on global wage arbitrage: <URL:https://nationalinterest.org/feature/danger-attempting-harness-trumpism-without-trump-186585>
    | Ivanka Trump, who served as a White House advisor for her father,
    | warmed to left-wing Google CEO Sundar Pichai, building a bridge
    | between him and the White House. In partnership with the nonprofit
    | Ad Council, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and IBM executive chairman Ginni
    | Rometty, Ivanka's message to Americans was "learn to code." He was
    | so attached to Silicon Valley that even after Twitter de-platformed
    | Trump, he reportedly refused to join either Parler or Gab without
    | receiving an ownership stake or equity in either company. Cook was
    | able to play Trump well enough that the latter removed tariffs on
    | the Apple Watch amid the trade war with China. Along with Bezos and
    | Kushner, Cook helped steer Trump away from cracking down on visa
    | worker programs that undermine the wages and job prospects of
    | Americans. They would also secure generous exemptions for the first
    | iteration of the pandemic "immigration ban" until public opposition
    | made it impossible for Trump to avoid enhancing the measure.

    Does Bill Stepien believe legacy American proles suffering Trump
    Disappointment Syndrome were the margin of Biden and Harris'
    victory?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
    --
    "Reinstitute President Trump's wildly successful "Remain In Mexico"
    policy and you'll end this #BidenBorderCrisis tomorrow. Everything
    else is just half measures. #AmericaFirst" - Columbia Bugle <URL:https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1372651609268830214>

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