Currently with NAFTA, you have a lot of people who are making products that they're not being paid enough to even contemplate buying.

You can get a job in one of those Mekila Dora factories in the border, not able to buy certainly not the car being made there,

but probably not the television being made there, not sure your kids can meet their school fees, that you have enough to eat.

That kind of race to the bottom is not an act of God. That is not, there is no alternative. That is not something that happened because that's globalization welcome to the modern era.

That is the outcome of a specific set of rules. For progressive people, that is not acceptable.

Hello and welcome to Wise This Happening with me, your host, Chris Haynes.

So I've got some interesting polling data in front of me here. That's about trade. Who likes trade, who doesn't like trade?

And the percentage who say free trade agreements between the US and other countries have generally been a good thing or bad thing for the US.

And one thing that's, there's some really interesting thing in the data.

So one is that Democrats, lean Democrats are much, much more likely to say that trade deals have been a good thing for the US.

67% say that as opposed to like 19% who say it's a bad thing.

Republicans on the other hand are much more likely to say it's a bad thing.

Another interesting piece of data.

When Trump was elected, there was this enormous wedge among Republicans. It went up to 63% of Republicans said trade deals are a bad thing.

And 29% said it was a good thing. And over the last two years, as he has implemented some of his trade policies, those numbers have converged.

So now it's basically tied. So the number of people who when Trump was elected, they were like, yeah, totally.

Trade deals are bad. Was 63% now it's down to 46%.

So watching the actual first few years of the Trump administration have moved even Republican voters away from Trump himself on trade.

And that's true of the general population. Back when Trump was elected in 2016, it was tied.

People say it's a good thing and bad thing. Now good thing is 56% bad thing 30% 26% margin.

So what's what we've seen in this country around trade is that Donald Trump ran on what I think was a fairly popular anti trade deal agenda.

Against NAFTA against the TPP, which he killed. He said Americans were getting ripped off by those bad foreigners.

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