[pepsionice]

If anyone can name a single piece of legislation passed over the past thirty years....which helped to build jobs and improve the US economy....I’d like to know the one.

Neither party has done much of anything worth bragging about.

[baltimorepoet]

“The Republican electorate has gone along with their leaders, begrudgingly, for 20 or 30 years,” Sessions said. “I supported all these trade agreements . . . but it’s becoming clear that the promises that were made weren’t true.” Gomer Pyle: "Surprise, surprise, surprise".

[GOP Poet]

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[Buckeye McFrog]

Bingo. Article is spot-on.

The American People gave free trade a 30 year test drive.
The results are in. No Sale!

[mulligan]

Are you sure that it is free trade causing those problems? And not more to do with stupid and ignorant rules, regulations and laws passed by Congress.

[Theodore R.]

Pat Buchanan was warning about this as early as 1991! The American people can’t understand.

[wayoverontheright]

Yep, free trade is the problem.

Nothing at all to do with high corporate taxes, political power purchased by labor unions, government wildly printing money, stifling energy policies, incomprehensible product-liability court decisions, lax enforcement of patent laws, double taxation of foreign profits, minimum wage edicts......

.....corporate decision-making besieged by EPA, OSHA, Dodd-Frank, Sarbanes-Oxley, and capital formation restricted by Federal Reserve lunacy........diplomas issued increasingly to college graduates unaware of Adam Smith but very knowledgeable of the writings of Noam Chomsky.......

.......incessant vilification of capitalism and religion from Hollywood, and the elevation of those in “public service” far above those who toil in the private sector.

The exodus of jobs from our shores has far more to do with an inhospitable environment for corporations and entrepreneurs, than trade agreements, IMHO. Baby, bathwater.

[truth_seeker]

Who turned the tide with Japan and Korea, causing them to invest in auto plants in the US, employing workers in the US ?

Likewise Mercedes, BMW and VW build vehicles in the US.

That looks like evidence of sound negotiating, and deal making. Win Win.

Which companies in China and Mexico are doing similar measures, to retain the privilege of selling their goods here ?

Fair trade, not just free trade.

[Impy]

It’s quite amusing to me how important protectionists think their issue is (and how they falsely assume the majority of Republican voters agree with them) to voters. Here I’m sitting wondering how come Buchanan and Perot weren’t elected then, lol.

I’m pretty positive Trump’s insincere promise to build a “yuge” wall on the Mexican border has a LOT more to do with his success than his promise to raise taxes on American consumers. But to hear protectionists fantasize it’s that promise of a tax hike that will lead legions of union democrat scum to deliver Trump a “yuge” landslide.

[Trumpinator]

“The Republican electorate has gone along with their leaders, begrudgingly, for 20 or 30 years,” Sessions said. “I supported all these trade agreements . . . but it’s becoming clear that the promises that were made weren’t true.”

The reckoning is coming. I am eager and blood thirsty to cast my vote. The saliva is dripping from my K9 teeth in anticipation. Trump 2016.