{"id":320875,"date":"2017-08-09T02:04:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T01:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-democrats-adopt-trump-and-bannons-economic-nationalism\/"},"modified":"2017-08-09T02:04:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T01:04:35","slug":"the-democrats-adopt-trump-and-bannons-economic-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-democrats-adopt-trump-and-bannons-economic-nationalism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Democrats adopt Trump and Bannon\u2019s economic nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>The Democrats adopt Trump and Bannon\u2019s economic nationalism<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Josh Varlin<br \/>\n    <br \/>8 August 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The Democratic Party unveiled a new portion of its \u201cBetter Deal\u201d program Wednesday, August 2, in which it adopted wholesale the economic nationalism of President Donald Trump and his fascist adviser, Steve Bannon. Many of the proposals are implicitly or explicitly directed against China, the main target of US imperialism in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>In a supplementary document, \u201cA Better Deal on Trade and Jobs,\u201d the Democratic Party adopts the economic nationalist demands promoted by Trump, the trade unions and Senator Bernie Sanders, including cracking down on countries that allegedly manipulate their currency (mainly China) and renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Better Deal,\u201d as the <em>World Socialist Web Site<\/em> wrote after its unveiling, \u201cis a transparent exercise in empty sloganeering and threadbare rhetorical populism.\u201d It combines the weakest \u201creforms\u201d imaginable, such as a $15 hourly minimum wage that is unlikely to be implemented and would still be wholly inadequate, with blatant pro-business measures, including tax credits for businesses to train and hire workers.<\/p>\n<p>At the unveiling on July 24, \u201cprogressive\u201d Senator Elizabeth Warren called the Democratic Party\u2019s new policies \u201cpro-market.\u201d In many ways, the economic-nationalist elaboration on the plan released last week is even more pro-capitalist.<\/p>\n<p>The concrete proposals amount to trade wars against competitors\u2014especially China\u2014and open defiance of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules and arbitration. \u201cA Better Deal on Trade\u201d calls for a supposedly independent trade prosecutor to receive petitions from businesses and unions and unilaterally punish countries&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/08\/08\/dems-a08.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The Democrats adopt Trump and Bannon\u2019s economic nationalism By Josh Varlin 8 August 2017 The Democratic Party unveiled a new portion of its \u201cBetter Deal\u201d program Wednesday, August 2, in which it adopted wholesale the economic nationalism of President Donald Trump and his fascist adviser, Steve Bannon. Many of the proposals are implicitly or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-320875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}