This is what always confuses me about David Sirota's bimonthly explosions towards "centrists" (which is to say, people who disagree with him on NAFTA). He writes as if the only way to win an election is carrying a giant pair of scissors and slicing up free trade agreements at every stop to rapturous applause from union audiences. This, he seems to think, is what people "who've actually won some campaigns" want us to do. But Evan Bayh thinks NAFTA was great. So does Clinton. Norquist, who he uses as an example of someone who "actually knows how build a serious movement", hearts business, free trade, bankruptcy bills, and all manner of screw-the-working-class wonderfulness. So if we're to actually go by Sirota's argument here, you can absolutely fuck over your base en route to majority status.
Right?
