… Anger about unbalanced trade has helped to fuel the rise of Donald J. Trump, the Republican front-runner, and the success of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont in his bid for the Democratic nomination. The manifest anger also has pushed their principal rivals, Republican Senator Ted Cruz and the Democratic front-runner, Hillary Clinton, to toughen their own trade rhetoric.
It is a situation that has surprised many experts because polls show voters’ concern about the overall health of the American economy has declined significantly in recent years.
Yet many Americans are just taking stock of the transformations wrought by global trade. CONT.
Binyamin Appelbaum, New York Times
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