Right wing "populists" are racist? #bowlmeoverwithafeather
by digby
Trump's alleged populism wasn't really about populism:
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said Wednesday morning that some White House aides who support protectionist trade policies "turned out to be racist," after President Donald Trump held a news conference blaming both sides for the unrest at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
"You had two factions in the White House," Trumka told reporters at a breakfast roundtable in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. "You had one faction that actually had some of the policies that we would have supported on trade and infrastructure, but turned out to be racist."
"And on the other hand, you had people who weren't racist, but they were Wall Street."
I'm pretty sure that describes right wing populism and mainstream conservatism. Did he not know that before?
And, by the way, if you take the racism out of right wing "populism" it turns out they don't care at all about the trade and infrastructure on their own merits. Economic "populism" is just a cover story for them.
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