From what I’ve seen this seems to be the main talking point American chuds have landed on to defend the tariffs and to dunk on other Americans who are upset about no longer being able to buy shit on Temu, etc
It’s pretty rich to accuse other countries of using slave labour for Burgerlanders in general but doubly rich for Republicans to pretend to give a shit about labour laws, working conditions, etc
It’s also interesting how widespread the idea of Chinese slave labour is in the West and to contrast it with how Japan and Korea’s awful work cultures get treated
China = the totalitarian communist government forces the entire country into slavery
Japan and Korea = those Asians just love working really hard or something
I mean, replacing manufacturing jobs in the US was never a bad idea. The problem is that tariffing the whole fucking world to kingdom come is not a strategy to scale up entire US-based factories from thin air. Furthermore, republicans are inherently opposed to the types of policies that would be required to effectuate real movement in this area.
Plus there’s the whole hypocrisy of egg prices being too expensive because Biden invented inflation or whatever the hell their angle is today.