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Comment by ChickenNugger

>It wasn't hippy tree huggers that sent all US manufacturing to China. undermining the entire US workforce, and leading to the current situation.

The working class still hasn't recovered from what NAFTA did to our share of wealth. (I'm trying to find the tweet + graph where I learned this in vain)

29 years later and we haven't caught up. The TPP (NAFTA, but for China) would have made it worse.

Further reading: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...

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