The Times leaves out the main reason for the Democrats to jump off the anti-trade train. The Democratic Party is not only the workers’ party; it is also a party of saps. Democrats love fighting for the small fry, and in this globalizing world the small fry has increasingly become the foreign worker, and especially the foreign farmer. Unfortunately for the Democrats, their rejection of the Colombia FTA has coincided in the last week with a global food crisis, shining an ugly spotlight on how their anti-trade agenda compromises the interests of poor farmers.

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