The radical new rules for trade imposed by NAFTA—and copied in the myriad trade deals signed by the US ever since—shifted the benefits of expanding trade to investors and the costs to workers..
After a quarter century of off-shored jobs and depressed wages in the wake of corporate-driven trade de-regulation, the claim that the TPP will make life better for American workers is so discredited that both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are opposed.
His program is not being attacked because of fear that he is endangering the "progressive economic agenda." Rather it is being attacked out of fear that he actually believes in it.
Liberals are intimidated and the campuses are silent. This frees the bi-partisan War Party that dominates Washington from having to face an inconvenient truth: the war is lost.
