NE Ohio has seen enough plants close to make NAFTA a political millstone, NAFTA is now a liability to those politicians who were involved with it’s passage.
Che’ is hammering Hilde over Bubba’s passage of NAFTA.
BTW, “productivity gains” are not raising wages for those in that segment of the economy, in fact, buying power has declined, and “Joe Average” knows it intuitively, that makes “free trade” a political loser of a issue, the consensus for passage of more deals has been broken.
I thought the whole idea behind NAFTA was to keep jobs from going to China, by sending them to Mexico instead. In that regard, I'd say NAFTA is a failure. The jobs all went to China anyway, well, except for dock worker jobs unloading all those container ships coming back from China, filled with goods that should have been made here in the first place.