USA 2024 US Presidential Election: Trump vs Harris

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[Dont_be_a_Plonka]

Serious question: is using tariffs to protect local industry not traditionally a left wing concept? I feel like unions and left-wing parties wanted to keep the auto industry going in Australia, for example, and it was the RWNJ's who decided it was okay to offshore this stuff because of muh free market. Then covid hit and many of us realised that we should probably have a little bit of local manufacturing independence instead of creating an economy that depends on outsourced slavery

It's like arguing whether Smallpox is left or right wing.
It's really neither, just a relic of the distant past.