The econ professor thumps Trump, gives Mrs. C. a pass

It’s the Pacific trade pact and T’s isolationism. But hers too.

Funny how in Professor Summers’ hyperventilating about the risk that Trump could collapse the Trans-Pacific Partnership, he somehow neglects to mention that Hillary Clinton has also publicly come out against that deal, in a pander to labor and an effort to appeal to Bernie Sanders supporters.

Unless Professor Summers thinks Hillary is lying for political purposes about her opposition to the deal and will reverse position and support it once elected [huh?], there’s no difference — zero difference — between her position on TPP and Trump’s.

And she’s supposed to be the establishment grownup and he (Trump, not Summers) is supposed to be the nationalist populist authoritarian demagogue. Right?

Well, that’s what we hear.

Source: Summers on Trump and Trade :: The Future of Capitalism

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