Democrats target Trump on trade

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post




By Robert Costa September 2 at 8:00 AM

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Democrats facing reelection next year in states President Trump won are seizing on trade at this early stage as a crucial issue and a Republican vulnerability.

But rather than jeer Trump’s protectionist positions, Democrats are echoing them and amplifying them, arguing that Trump has failed to fulfill his dramatic campaign promise to rip apart trade deals.

“When we say renegotiating NAFTA, we mean a transformation, something substantial, not just going through the motions,” Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. (D-Pa.) told union leaders recently, referring to the administration’s talks over the North American Free Trade Agreement.

For Democrats, Casey’s pitch signals a wholehearted revival of their labor roots and a sharp departure from the free-trade tilt of the past two Democratic presidents, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/democrats-target-trump-on-trade/2017/09/02/2dfbabf8-8f5f-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_casey-1040am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.38ab1a70fd4e

[Dopers_Greed]

1. They are playing with fire here

Are these Dems going to be able to get out of the trade deals? And if/when they do, are they going to own the negative economic consequences?

The line that we should be pursuing is "Ripping up trade deals won't actually bring jobs back."

[Willie Pep]

2. Good news.

Bob Casey is a good person to handle this issue since I think he can connect with a lot of working-class people who voted for Trump because they liked what he was saying on trade. You can win back some of these people in 2020.