The campaign season brought tough and sometimes harsh rhetoric on trade – from both sides of the aisle. A candidate running for president essentially has no choice. In order to reach Rust Belt voters dealing with the real pain of lost jobs and declining industry (as a result of those jobs moving overseas), a politician is required to address how they can bring those jobs back. Failure to address these job losses – and by extension, failure to propose a plan for reviving the manufacturing industry – is the equivalent of political suicide. When offering up a solution to bring back jobs and the
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