It hasn’t escaped the notice of pundits that the political iconoclasts Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have something in common: they’re sceptical about trade. Trump, for example, has riffed expansively: “We don’t win any more. We don’t beat China in trade. We don’t beat Japan … We can’t beat Mexico, at the border or in trade.” Sanders expressed his concerns with a little more precision: “While bad trade agreements are not the only reason why manufacturing jobs in the US have declined, they are an important factor.”
專家們注意到,伯尼•桑德斯(Bernie Sanders)和唐納•川普(Donald Trump)這兩位政治上的離經叛道者有一個共同之處,即都對貿易抱著懷疑態度。例如,川普多次宣稱:「我們不再贏得勝利,我們沒有在貿易上打敗中國。我們沒有打敗日本……我們不可能在邊境或貿易上打敗墨西哥。」桑德斯更爲有的放矢地表達了他的擔憂:「儘管糟糕的貿易協定不是美國製造業就業崗位下降的唯一原因,但它們是一個重要因素。」