The Kennedy Fallacy all over again....
Trump is as little capable of doing anything about trade as Lincoln was of doing anything about colonization.
The Civil War itself was an enormous shooting of oneself in the foot, on this issue, for Lincoln.
Of course, Krugman now tries to make NAFTA sound like it had been a good deal at the time, different so called favorable tariff rates, etc. What a lot of bullshit.
Think about the predatory labor cost discrepancy, the 800 pound gorilla in the room, compared to chicken shit tariff rates differences.
The Mexicans had said to Clinton: If you sign it, we'll stop exporting Mexicans!
Guess what, Clinton signed it, and then the Mexicans exported even more Mexicans, and in recent years, anyone from South or Central America going that way!
Krugman remains the quintessential economists' Mr Globalization.
Brooks' associate... Brooks and Krugman: You got a problem with globalization? More free trade, and even more cheap labor immigration, unlimited really, will solve it!
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