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"Apart from NAFTA being his idea? You can go ahead and thank him for the WTO, while you’re at it . . . ."

Reagan? You're thinking of the pre-NAFTA agreements and treaties. The same ones that Perot mentioned in 1991 or 1992 while NAFTA was just becoming known to the public. I listened to most of Reagan's speeches and don't remember him paying much more than lip service to free trade outside of the context of anti-Communism. The man had a full plate.

NAFTA was Bush41 and then Clinton, who each had their fingerprints all over it. In fact, for a while there were (D)emocrats criticizing Clinton for NAFTA and he actually took some incoming fire for it. This is when the so-called "Talking-Points" ( sorry O'Reilly, you stole it ) and rapid response was invented. They eventually completely pushed ownership of NAFTA onto Bush41 even though Clinton had a lot to do with it. It is a classic example of the uniparty in action only 4 years after Reagan left the White House.

Some of Reagan's duplicitous underlings like Deaver, George Schultz, James Baker, Howard Baker, Duberstein didn't have America's selfish interests at heart and though I can not prove it or even remember it, they would undoubtedly help grease the skids for these kind of deals. They were all positioned to cash in once they left their offices and the scrutiny of their income, such as it was, was finally lifted.

We can't blame Reagan for NAFTA, but we can blame him for selecting Bush for Vice President I guess.

Reagan had nothing to do with NAFTA.

Reagan negotiated a free trade deal with Canada. Canada BTW is a first world nation much like we used to be in the 80s'. The US-Canada trade agreement became the blue print for NAFTA however Mexico is not a first world nation so the benefits of free trade with Mexico to the US were/are nill. The lesson being that among equals or near equals free trade works. However free trade does not work if the two economies and corresponding life styles are vastly different.