“If a Democrat is in office, old Dad has a job,” John used to tell his kids. “If a Republican gets in there, old Dad is out of work.” They had believed so fervently in the Democratic Party that they weren’t worried when President Bill Clinton signed the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which removed import tariffs on products made in Mexico. The third-party candidate H. Ross Perot had warned that the treaty would create a “giant sucking sound” of jobs moving south of the border. But John and Tim hadn’t paid Perot any mind. Clinton was a Democrat who looked after the
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