It's really easy to give in, think the country is fully engulfed in flames because Orange Man, conclude that we'd all be better off without ... but then I wonder, would Jake Tapper ever have asked a Democratic nominee for president about NAFTA if Trump weren't in office?
Probably not. And it's hard to put into words how much trade deals like that damaged the little guy in this country. NAFTA is an absolute scam (so was GATT for that matter).
Everybody forgets about them because they happened so long ago, and it took a long time to see the results.
(My own father learned Spanish in 2007ish so he could train his replacement how to run factories bound for Mexico.)
It used to be the Dems were the skeptics on these deals. But the pole shift in politics over the last few decades has brought elites together for bipartisan agreement.
Obama railed on NAFTA a bit as a candidate (in tandem with immigration and the wars, why he earned my vote)
"Obama, an Illinois senator, has turned trade into a centerpiece of his campaign in Ohio, where trade agreements are particularly unpopular as domestic manufacturing jobs disappear." reuters.com/article/us-usa…
But he eventually fell in line like all the others. As he left office we had a series of international deals that, in my estimation, left the US carrying the bulk of the burden.
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