Donald Trump's Free-trade Follies

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Thu, 06/30/2016 - 2:44am

Earlier this week, Donald Trump delivered what is being billed as his most substantive policy address yet, promising to return jobs and riches to America through "economic independence." That means scrapping free trade deals and embracing protectionism. Trump's speech took aim at Hillary Clinton, of course, but the entity he's really shooting in the foot is his own party — which has been championing free trade for at least quarter of a century, in words if not always in deed. Trump alleged that America has lost nearly one-third of its manufacturing jobs since 1997 and at the "center of the catastrophe are two trade deals pushed by Bill and Hillary Clinton," namely NAFTA and China's entry into the World Trade Organization. But to paraphrase the epic putdown of writer Lillian Hellman: Every word in that statement is a lie, including "and" and "the." For starters, Hillary was only the first lady when the deals passed, and had very little to do with them except to make an occasional obligatory speech in support of her husband.

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