I remember the 1980s. Many Reaganite conservatives were into union-bashing, and cheered the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs because it punished "leftist unions" for their greed.
Conservatives were wrong about that. And about NAFTA and GATT in the 1990s (which were also supported by Clinton type, moderate New Democrats).
Many Freepers will hate me for that, I’m afraid, but you are very right, imho.
But to defend myself, I don’t so much come from what we mainland Europeans sometimes call the “Anglo-Saxon school of Conservatism”. This has, as you all know, a strong emphasis on property rights and personal liberty. That is what sets it apart from mainland European conservatism.
Nothing wrong with that per se, but here I think that the values of the former are at odds with traditional conservatism in the British “High Tory” mould (which I consider close to mainland European conservatism), or - to some degree - paleoconservatism.
N.B.: There is, however, one thing I deplore about paleoconservatism: the traces of anti-semitism which I think I can notice in some of its proponents.