The jobs were already going to Mexico, China, and all other places where American manufacturers could pay workers less. Jobs in mills moved from New England to the South in the 60s. Clothing manufacturers began moving jobs offshore in search of cheaper labor well before NAFTA. (Are you old enough to remember the "Look for the Union Label" commercial from the International Ladies Garment Worker's Union? I am.) Clinton didn't make those jobs disappear. Did NAFTA untimately help American workers? No. It didn't. But manufacturers had been moving jobs offshore for decades by then. Some folks have short memories, and some folks don't remember because they weren't there when it happened.