Facing a presidential primary against Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton has been working to co-opt his support base by pandering vigorously to her party’s left-wing.
The most glaring example of this came in last month, when she suddenly abandoned her full-throated support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. In her own memoir, she had hailed the free trade agreement as “the economic pillar of our strategy in Asia” when she was secretary of state, and referred to it as the “gold standard in trade agreements.”
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