"It" first raised "it's" ugly head with NAFTA - championed by none other than George Herbert Walker Bush.
George Bush and the End of Globalization?
However, former U.S. President George H. W. Bush was not satisfied with this distinction and he had a vision.
To create a free trade area between Canada, Mexico and the United States.
His vision was realized by his successor, Bill Clinton, who, early on, spent much of his political capital aggressively lobbying for the ratification of NAFTA.
President Clinton did this despite a deeply divided Congress, union pressures and the disapproval of many of his fellow Democrats.
This was President Clinton’s first act of political emancipation as a New Democrat. But it had been George Herbert Walker Bush, who ushered in a decade of global commercial integration.
His support for NAFTA was rooted in Ricardo’s trade theory — that is, the belief that free trade is not a zero-sum game, but rather a win-win proposition.
If you are talking about NAFTA, it was first proposed in 1979 by Ronald Reagan.
Every President since embraced it, and evolved what they mean by it and how that applies to the rest of the world.
In recent years we have been getting away from the original plan.
I just remember Clinton and algore pushing this disaster through Congress with the help of many Republicans.