[BroJoeK]

Perchant: "The Republicans’ main goal is to put citizen workers in head-to-head competition with third-world workers making pennies a day and poverty-stricken immigrants who are willing to work for pennies a day."

Again, I'll refer back to Trump the Elder (Perot) in 1992, running against "that giant sucking sound" from NAFTA.
Perot got 18% of the vote that year, and helped elect a Clinton president.
That means (do the math) over 80% of the US electorate voted for candidates who supported NAFTA.
Why?

Well, for one thing, because 24 years ago there were still living many who remembered how Smoot-Hawley drove the Great Depression deeper and longer than it may otherwise have been.
They believed in 1992 that "free trade" was a necessary ingredient for long-term economic growth and prosperity.
Very few then (only 18%) considered that "free trade" would be inherently "unfair trade", with massive trade deficits going to countries which figured out how to effectively game our system.

But in 1992 Trump the Elder (Perot) went a little nuts in the end, dropping from a high of 39% in the polls in June to just 18% of votes on election day, in November.
So, if Trump the Younger this year does some of that same crazy-*ssed stuff, I think it'll be the end of billionaire politicians as we now know them.

1992 Trump the Elder, and 2016 Trump the Younger:

[central_va]

Well, for one thing, because 24 years ago there were still living many who remembered how Smoot-Hawley drove the Great Depression deeper and longer than it may otherwise have been. They believed in 1992 that "free trade" was a necessary ingredient for long-term economic growth and prosperity.

The Smoot-Hawley lie.

A vapid attempt at rewriting history. Look at contemporary accounts of the Great Depression an trade isn't even much of an after thought as to the cause of the depression. What a joke. Pathetic. Re writing history is what Communist and Free Traitors™ like you do.

You lie about the Civil War and about the Great Depression. Is their anything you get right?

My grandparents talked about the depression a lot . Trade never came up as a subject-ever. Buying stocks with borrowed money came up all the time.

[Perchant]

Have you paid attention to China for the last 20 years? They’ve been Smoot-Hawleying us to the hilt. China’s economic miracle can be described in two words: Smoot and Hawley. Why does it work for them so magnificently?