The proposed bargain has always been “no, we won’t really fight corporations, but we’ll defend social progress!”
Well, they’re in charge, the rich are richer than ever, & now people are being charged with murder for miscarrying & it’s illegal to admit gay people are real.
liberals are the most insufferably ignorant people on the planet holy shit
Yeah, even the Dem House Majority Leader at the time, Dick Gephardt was against it citing that NAFTA would exacerbate job loss and declining incomes of US workers and would cause excess environmental impacts. He didn't vote for it. And yeah, the foundations of NAFTA went all the way back to Reagan. HW Bush actually signed the NAFTA agreement his last year in office and then the Dem controlled Congress and Clinton ratified it in Clinton's first year.
Since Congress is an absolute gerontocracy, every Dem in leadership today voted on NAFTA when it passed ~30 years ago. Biden and Pelosi voted for it. Schumer voted against it.