I mean, there's some things that I agree with conservative critiques. NAFTA was a huge mistake letting China into the World Trade Organization on those terms. Huge mistake. We hollowed out steel, we hollowed out aluminum, we hollowed out shipbuilding, we hollowed out drug manufacturing. Industry after industry left places like Lorain, Ohio, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Galesburg, Illinois. You know, they've lost population, churches have been shrinking, storefronts are abandoned, and this country didn't do anything. (07:09–07:16)
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