The Democratic party has its own internal problems on [international trade issues], namely that Bill Clinton lined the party up behind NAFTA and CAFTA, and stood back while the country bled manufacturing jobs, all the while promising that the deals were opening “new markets” for our products in countries where most people earn four bucks a week and can’t buy whatever we still make in this country anywhere. I see closed steel mills and cluttered factories all over this country. I have yet to see footage of Vietnamese workers driving home in Volkswagens that were manufactured in Tennessee. Maybe I’m watching the wrong channel.

–  Charlie Pierce