Reply #12: But to get to a position where that threat would have substance [View All]

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they would have to make a massive public issue about a split among Democrats, which would seriously weaken the president's appeal among the public. I mean, the elections of 1968 and 1980 are hardly models to emulate.

As for point 4, this is not an argument I'm inclined to get very far into at the moment, but I think that progressives too often attribute to trade policy what would be more aptly attributed to capitalism's general practice--especially with the shift to the right in US economic policy since the 1970s.