2016 Postmortem

portlander23

(2,078 posts) Thu Dec 29, 2016, 09:46 AM Dec 2016

Trumps attacks on rigged trade deals resonated with communities devastated by mass job offshoring

TPP: How Obama Traded Away His Legacy
Lori Wallach and Murshed Zaheed
Huffington Post

And President Obama still won’t face the sorry truth, this week declaring that he would have beaten Trump if he had been the candidate. After years of siding with corporate America to pass various job-killing trade deals over the opposition of congressional Democrats, he announced that it was “nonsense” that anyone should have the view that “Democrats have somehow abandoned the white working class.”

Yet in fact, post-election polling and exit polls confirm that Trump flipped decisive states because he connected with voters’ fury about job-killing trade deals.

Trump’s omnipresent attacks on “rigged” trade deals resonated with communities devastated by mass job offshoring. Polling shows that Americans viewed President Obama’s TPP as a corporate power grab that would cost more jobs, lower wages and raise medicine prices.

Trump won Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania by 23,000, 11,000 and 68,000 votes, respectively. The number of people in those states certified as having lost jobs to trade since the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, is 78,331, 159,252 and 182,017 under just one government program that captures a fraction of trade-related job loss.

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Trumps attacks on rigged trade deals resonated with communities devastated by mass job offshoring (Original Post) portlander23 Dec 2016 OP

The unions, the environmental groups, & the majority of Democrats in congress were against the TPP think Dec 2016 #1

Obama was for it. Why were they unable to get Obama to oppose it? n/t delisen Dec 2016 #2

You would have to ask President Obama. It was made more than clear these groups opposed it. think Dec 2016 #4

That is why Bernie would have been the perfect candidate to run against Trump. SamKnause Dec 2016 #3

LOL! Sanders would not have been the perfect candidate in any way. KittyWampus Dec 2016 #5

LOL SamKnause Dec 2016 #6

I long for the day when invisible white collar workers are as deified as much as blue collar workers LonePirate Dec 2016 #7

think

(11,641 posts)

1. The unions, the environmental groups, & the majority of Democrats in congress were against the TPP

Reply to portlander23 (Original post)

Thu Dec 29, 2016, 09:53 AM

Dec 2016

It was very unfortunate that the TPP was still being pushed for during the election.

delisen

(6,458 posts)

2. Obama was for it. Why were they unable to get Obama to oppose it? n/t

Reply to think (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 29, 2016, 10:03 AM

Dec 2016

think

(11,641 posts)

4. You would have to ask President Obama. It was made more than clear these groups opposed it.

Reply to delisen (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 29, 2016, 10:11 AM

Dec 2016

http://www.aflcio.org/Issues/Trade/Trans-Pacific-Partnership-Free-Trade-Agreement-TPP/Ten-Critical-Problems-with-the-Trans-Pacific-Partnership

http://www.sierraclub.org/compass/2015/10/more-dozen-environmental-organizations-warn-trans-pacific-partnership-risks

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/260645-house-democrats-call-tpp-too-big-to-pass-congress

SamKnause

(13,804 posts)

3. That is why Bernie would have been the perfect candidate to run against Trump.

Reply to portlander23 (Original post)

Thu Dec 29, 2016, 10:10 AM

Dec 2016

Bernie voted against every trade deal.

He knew they would harm U.S. workers.

The corporate Dems failed this country miserably !!!!!!!!

Now we will all suffer under the dictatorship of Trump and the Republicans.

I supported Bernie 100%.

I have never been so excited about a politician !!!

I voted for Hillary, not out of excitement, but to stop Trump.

I cried for 2 days when she lost.

We all lost, not just Hillary.

Now they want us all to fight to regain control.

What is the point of having control when you don't do what the people

want and need you to do ???

Flame away Bernie haters.

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)

5. LOL! Sanders would not have been the perfect candidate in any way.

Reply to SamKnause (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 29, 2016, 10:27 AM

Dec 2016

And I have had two posts hidden now for simply posting FACTS about Bernie Sanders' biography that his supporters apparently think are lies they are so unflattering.

I don't "hate" Sanders. But he and his campaign for POTUS nomination were what they were.

It's unfortunate so many of his supporters still can't face the facts and see him in a realistic light.

SamKnause

(13,804 posts)

6. LOL

Reply to KittyWampus (Reply #5)

Thu Dec 29, 2016, 10:35 AM

Dec 2016

I don't hate Hillary.

It's unfortunate so many of her supporters still can't face the facts

and see her in a realistic light.

LonePirate

(13,893 posts)

7. I long for the day when invisible white collar workers are as deified as much as blue collar workers

Reply to portlander23 (Original post)

Thu Dec 29, 2016, 10:58 AM

Dec 2016

Much of the Democratic voting base in urban and suburban areas are white collar workers and service workers. Yet it's the concerns of the blue collar workers which receive all of the attention even though our economy is moving away from blue collar work into degreed work. Evidently the present and the future do not matter much as much as the past.

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