The dumbest thing about Trump's desire to manufacture dolls in the US is that many of the jobs would be bad ones: Connecting plastic body parts to torsos, attaching nylon hair, etc. I talked to toy industry people who laid this all out. Striking stuff: newrepublic.com/article/1949...

Everybody is talking about Trump's doll lunacy from the consumer side of the equation. But we should also talk about it from the labor side. Are doll manufacturing jobs something we want at massive scale? No, not really. Here's what this would look like: newrepublic.com/article/1949...

If tariffs are designed to create high-quality US jobs, weakening unions and gutting regulatory oversight will work against that goal, especially in something like the doll industry, with its high-volume, repetitive tasks involving synthetic materials. newrepublic.com/article/1949...

Trumpism is actually not about restoring good manufacturing jobs. Bringing mass scale toy manufacturing to the US (brutal factory jobs) while gutting unions/regulations (also core ideological commitments of Trumpism) is a recipe for drudgery and subjugation. newrepublic.com/article/1949...

Still funny...

I’ve thought about that basically every day since they’ve been claiming they want more manufacturing. It’s just perfect.

They aren’t deep thinkers. That’s what right wing has done to their minds. Turned them into simpletons.

Uh ......the Blue Bar is all Americans, barely different.