--- description: The backlash to free trade is understandable—but it needs to be defused. title: This Is What Makes Trump and Sanders Supporters So Angry image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9616963db7d58803/69888fcacf40a84e77c42e27/bremmer-tout.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Globalization](/tag/globalization/) ## Globalization Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Why Trump and Sanders Supporters Are So Angry About Globalization  by [Ian Bremmer](/author/ian-bremmer/)  ## Ian Bremmer Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 26, 2016 12:00 PM CUT   by [Ian Bremmer](/author/ian-bremmer/)  ## Ian Bremmer Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 26, 2016 12:00 PM CUT The trend towards greater globalization has benefited the world economy, lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. But there have been drawbacks as well—especially for blue-collar Americans who have seen manufacturing jobs lost to developing economies. That has fueled a populist backlash against globalization and new free trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and has supported the presidential candidacies of outsiders like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. As TIME foreign affairs columnist Ian Bremmer explains in this video, both the benefits and the cost of globalization must be better shared in the U.S.—or the trend toward greater free trade could be reversed, which would cost everyone. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4299604/globalization-free-trade-trans-pacific-partnership/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4299604/globalization-free-trade-trans-pacific-partnership/"},"headline":"Why Trump and Sanders Supporters Are So Angry About Globalization","datePublished":"2016-04-26T12:00:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:52:27.784Z","description":"The backlash to free trade is understandable—but it needs to be defused","url":"https://time.com/4299604/globalization-free-trade-trans-pacific-partnership/","keywords":["Globalization","Economy","free-trade","Bernie Sanders","Donald Trump","global trade","NAFTA"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9616963db7d58803/69888fcacf40a84e77c42e27/bremmer-tout.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ian Bremmer","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/ian-bremmer/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9616963db7d58803/69888fcacf40a84e77c42e27/bremmer-tout.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TPP protest sign","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/globalization/","name":"Globalization"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4299604/globalization-free-trade-trans-pacific-partnership/","name":"Why Trump and Sanders Supporters Are So Angry About Globalization"}}]}] ```