Hillary Clinton hardened her stance against the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement Saturday in a last-ditch effort to prevent Democratic rival Bernie Sanders from riding a wave of populist anger to another victory Tuesday in a key industrial state. [Doug Palmer| March 12, 2016 |Politico] Her comments at a Youngstown, Ohio rally ratcheted up her criticism…
FOR decades, free-trade agreements, called F.T.A.s, have been one of the most solid planks in the platform of economic elites and establishment politicians. True, the occasional political candidate like Ross Perot argued against one deal or another and even President Obama ran on “renegotiating” the North American Free Trade Agreement, but once elected, presidents…
Millions of voters are siding with Donald Trump in the Republican primaries, and it’s not just because he’s a racist. He’s one of the few politicians (Bernie Sanders is another) who is telling the truth about why the American middle class is collapsing: Foreign trade has decimated factory jobs, the bedrock of our economy.…
“We’ve got to stand up for unions,” Hillary Clinton declared in her closing statement during the Democratic debate in Milwaukee last month. The line offered the labor-friendly audience a comforting rebuke to Gov. Scott Walker’s relentless attacks on Wisconsin’s unions. It generated passionate applause. [Dan Kaufman| March 12, 2016 |The New York Times] But Mrs.…
Republican front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday said he would rip up all existing free trade agreements if he wins the White House. [Vicki Needham| March 3, 2016 |The Hill] Trump argued that he would greatly improve U.S. relationships with nations such as Mexico and China while lowering trade deficits. “I’m going to rip up those trade…
LAURA INGRAHAM: I think when you look at the Michigan race, that dynamic with Hillary Clinton and the Trump win, probably pegs this back to more than personality, but back to the issue of trade. [Tim Hains| March 8, 2016 |Real Clear Politics] Remember when Mitt Romney lost Michigan, his home state, by more than…