Source: Yahoo! News
“‘We will not allow our workers and industries to be displaced by unfair import competition.’ If that sounds like Donald Trump, that is because the Republican president and standard-bearer in 2025 is, in essence, a Democrat stuck in the 1980s — and indeed, the line comes from the Democrats’ 1980 platform. The Democrat Trump sounds like is Dick Gephardt, once a very considerable figure in American politics who ran for president twice before retiring to become a bigfoot lobbyist and consultant. He ended up working for DLA Piper and Goldman Sachs — who doesn’t? — but in the 1980s and 1990s, he was the face of center-left trade Luddism, the union goons’ answer to Ross Perot. When the upstart nat-pop right demanded that the GOP abandon ‘zombie Reaganism,’ who knew that what they had in mind was zombie Gephardtism?” (02/10/25)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/zombie-dick-gephardt-141500548.html