As recently as December 2017. Now as Trump does many of the things that Bernie himself advocated, Bernie is suddenly hiding out when it comes to trade policy.
I just think that the most anti-trade Presidents in memory have been Republicans: Herbert Hoover and now Donald Trump. FDR, the gold standard of progressive Presidents, liberalized trade. Yet, being anti-trade agreement has somehow been deemed as of late to be a "progressive" position. China and Russia, two communist countries, have pursued trade deals. Yet, in the U.S., protectionist policies are somehow seen as progressive and socialist.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-13/bernie-sanders-to-trump-on-nafta-for-once-keep-your-promise
Bernie Sanders Tells Trump to Keep His Promise on Nafta
President Donald Trump is finding an unlikely ally in his efforts to overhaul the North American Free Trade Agreement: the political left.
Civil-society groups, union leaders and left-wing politicians have opposed almost everything Trump has done. But they’re urging him to stand firm in his attempt to overhaul Nafta -- and face down opposition from business groups, who complain that U.S. companies will be hurt by the proposed changes. Mexico and Canada have called U.S. demands unworkable, including on regional-content requirements for cars and investor-state dispute systems.
Senator Bernie Sanders, an outspoken critic of trade deals in his campaign for president last year, called on Trump to deliver. “When Donald Trump campaigned for president, he promised that he was going to stop corporations from shifting American jobs to Mexico,” Sanders said Wednesday at a rally for the #ReplaceNafta movement in Washington. “For once in your life, keep your promises.”
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