Obama’s Cognitive Dissonance on Trade

It’s been more than twenty years since the United States entered its last big trade agreement, with the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). It has been more than ten years since Barack Obama stood up at the 2004 Democratic Convention, in Boston, and said, “We have more work to do for the workers I met in Galesburg, Illinois, who are losing their union jobs at the Maytag plant that’s moving to Mexico, and now they’re having to compete with their own children for jobs that pay seven bucks an hour.”

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