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To: TideGlider who wrote (982641)	11/18/2016 11:13:46 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 1575396

Make America tribal againI need not expound on the tribal nature of Trump's presidential campaign. It was about keeping people out of America, not bringing people in. It was about returning to a past the country lost, not opening our minds to the future we should, and inevitably must, face. In no other part of Trump's policies is this more evident than in his toxic talk regarding global trade. It is as vicious as it is unfair. Never mind that global trade has been on the decline for the past five years, and never mind that Americans have lost thousands of jobs to automation rather than globalization. Trump's rhetoric about China, about Mexico, about NAFTA, about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, is not about facts. It's about feelings. It's certainly not about cooperation or peace. It is about an aggressive tit-for-tat in which the US has already been offended. In Trump's mind we, the citizens of the richest, most powerful country, are victims. And we victims, he believes, are entitled to take back what is ours. This combination of victimization and entitlement is one of the most dangerous combinations in human nature.