Is rampant Globalization pushing Right Wingers and Progressives together on trade issues? [View all]

[uawchild]

It seems that working class people on both sides of the political spectrum are starting to voice the same fears over globalization and the resultant economic insecurity it is causing in their lives. I really wish we democrats as a party would do more to address these issues and not let right wing demagogues like Trump steal and pervert this issue with racism and xenophobia.

Here is an article by Pat Buchanan, and god knows he is a right wing nut bag, that confirms my fears that the right wing is trying to take ownership of this issue. Thank god Bernie Sanders fought the good fight for we democrats in bringing this economic injustice and job insecurity to the fore, and I hope that our presumptive nominee Hillary makes it a major part of her general election campaign going forward.
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Why Trump Challenges Free Trade
By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN • July 1, 2016

In Tuesday’s indictment of free trade as virtual economic treason, The Donald has really set the cat down among the pigeons.

For, in denouncing NAFTA, the WTO, MFN for China and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, all backed by Bush I and II, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, Trump is all but calling his own party leaders dunderheads and losers.

And he seems to be winning the argument.

As he calls for the repudiation of “globalism” and a return to “Americanism,” a Republican Congress renders itself mute on whether it will even vote on the TPP this year.

On trade, Bernie Sanders is closer to Trump. Even Hillary Clinton has begun to renounce a TPP she once called the “gold standard” of trade deals.

Where have all the troubadours of free trade gone? Why do economic patriots seem ascendant? Is this like the Cold War, where the other side gets up and goes home?

Answer. As Trump pointed out in Monessen in the Mon Valley of Pennsylvania, the returns from free trade are in, and the results are rotten.

Since Bush I, we have run $12 trillion in trade deficits, $4 trillion with China. Once a Maoist dump, China has become the greatest manufacturing power on earth. Meanwhile, the U.S. has lost 50,000 factories and a third of its manufacturing jobs.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/buchanan/why-trump-challenges-free-trade/