Robert Reich on Hillary Clinton in 2016

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39. I'm sorry but I have to disagree with you on your use

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of the word "hero." Robert Reich is an academic who has been tapped for public service over the years. For all of the "progressive" talk he engages in now, I still have quite vivid memories of seeing him on innumerable talk shows in the 1990s hardselling NAFTA. I have yet to hear him take ownership of that portion of his career or offer the American worker some inkling that the thinking that went into NAFTA and all the other AFTAs which were destructive and led to some of the problems we have now.

One of my pet peeves is how casually the word "hero" is applied to people, especially those who have just name recognition going for them and not much else than the fact that they were doing the job they were hired to do.