Rush was part of the conservative talk radio elite. His job was to push things that the so called right would accept. Nafta, free trade, China, outsourcing, etc. He was very good at this job.
True. We got burned bad by “free trade”, aka free flow of goods. Ross Perot was right though. Many of us didn’t imagine that production would be moved off shore.
Rush was always a populist. Frankly, I don’t recall where he stood on Nafta. However, he didn’t rigidly conform to inside the belt way “conservative” thinking. One example is immigration.
Rush was indeed a supporter of the Clinton era NAFTA agreement. He spurned and mocked Perot and his prescient warning of the “giant sucking sound” of disappearing American industrial jobs. His later emphatic, chilling monologues on Clinton’s selling out of our country and the White House to Chinese criminals in exchange for millions and reelection in ‘96, fell on deaf ears. NAFTA was already killing us. Clinton was the traitor that paved the way to our downfall.
Not till the ascendency of Trump did I hear Rush acknowledge that NAFTA was a mistake. I remember him lamenting NAFTA in his dying days. Trump was our one chance to restore what was rightfully ours. Too little too late given that we are now led by even bigger traitors than Clinton. The democrats, led by Biden are killing us from within. This is the essence of our destruction.