JD Vance
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And I've seen this in the halls of Congress.
I've seen it very explicitly.
You talk about lobbying, and we obviously talked about in the context of other industries.
There is a massive corporate lobby for cheap labor in the United States of America.
And that is, I think, the main thing that's going on.
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In 2017, 2018, when I was in the private sector, I was at a business conference dinner.
And I was seated next to the CEO of one of the largest hotel chains in America.
This is, I think, probably 2018.
And the guy is going on and on about how much he hates Donald Trump.
And I'm like, oh, that's interesting.
Like, why do you hate Donald Trump so much?
Because, again, I was sort of a Trump skeptic in 2015.
And at this point, I was kind of starting to really get on the Trump train.
The reason I hate Donald Trump, he says, is because Donald Trump's border policies have cut down the number of illegal immigrants.
And because I can't pay illegal immigrants under the table anymore, I have to pay American workers and they want much higher wages.
And I was like, this guy just admitted it.
I was like, holy shit, this guy just admitted it.