Reply #8: Jan.2003...changing from global free trader.... [View All]

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as per Matthew Yglesias who was hired to work for Dean back then:


So I'm back from a week at Howard Dean's office and let me tell you, it is cold in Vermont. Big time. It makes Boston look like Maui. On a more serious note, however, I became quite dissilusioned when it became clear that Dean has decided to abandon his history of support for free trade and become a protectionist. I spent a lot of time transcribing Dean's off-the-kuff remarks so they could be worked-up into a written address and while it looked at first like he was just trying to fudge (trade hurts you in the primary) it became clear that over the past few weeks he's been moving toward a full-scale flip-flop complete with a ginned-up non-protectionist rationalization for protectionism.

http://www.matthewyglesias.com/archives/001873.html