Again, I'll refer back to Trump the Elder (Perot) in 1992, running against "that giant sucking sound" from NAFTA.
Perot got 18% of the vote that year, and helped elect a Clinton president.
That means (do the math) over 80% of the US electorate voted for candidates who supported NAFTA.
Why?
Well, for one thing, because 24 years ago there were still living many who remembered how Smoot-Hawley drove the Great Depression deeper and longer than it may otherwise have been.
They believed in 1992 that "free trade" was a necessary ingredient for long-term economic growth and prosperity.
Very few then (only 18%) considered that "free trade" would be inherently "unfair trade", with massive trade deficits going to countries which figured out how to effectively game our system.
But in 1992 Trump the Elder (Perot) went a little nuts in the end, dropping from a high of 39% in the polls in June to just 18% of votes on election day, in November.
So, if Trump the Younger this year does some of that same crazy-*ssed stuff, I think it'll be the end of billionaire politicians as we now know them.
1992 Trump the Elder, and 2016 Trump the Younger:
