Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Democrats Were for Tariffs Before They Were Against Them They’re not born-again free-traders, they’re born-again traitors.
Frontpagemag ^ | 4-9-2025 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 04/10/2025 5:14:19 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey

In 1993, Democrats voted against NAFTA by 156-102 and against it in the Senate by a narrower 28-27. Now, Democrats are mourning the death of what they claim is the last vestige of NAFTA.

President Trump’s tariffs, they claim, are killing the ‘free trade’ that the Dems once opposed, before they supported it, and before they opposed it.

NAFTA cost Republicans the White House, but Bill Clinton’s embrace of it cost Democrats the South. Clinton had manipulated and misled working class Democrats into believing that he would either reject or fundamentally transform NAFTA and lost the white working class vote.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, then a mere member of Congress, had originally voted against NAFTA.

(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: tariffs
The Dems loved tariffs until they hated them.
1 posted on 04/10/2025 5:14:19 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Sir_Humphrey

On democrat message boards they’re openly rooting for foreign countries and hoping for an economic crash.


2 posted on 04/10/2025 5:19:29 AM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sir_Humphrey

The current Democrat line is whatever Trump does is infinitely evil. That is the major premise of every particular Dem policy pronouncement.


3 posted on 04/10/2025 5:19:56 AM PDT by Salman (Lasu Eŭropon bruli!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sir_Humphrey

Dems D eceivers in the republic. Enemies domestic.


4 posted on 04/10/2025 5:22:06 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sir_Humphrey

The Rats never met an anti American policy they didn’t like.


5 posted on 04/10/2025 5:26:22 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sir_Humphrey

The most important lesson to be derived from the article is that President Trump is a Free Trader.

Some here define the President as a “Free Traitor” which is now proven to be totally incorrect


6 posted on 04/10/2025 5:26:45 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sir_Humphrey

They have been the same with Trump and Musk. It’s all about them, not the country.


7 posted on 04/10/2025 5:29:19 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sir_Humphrey

Back in 1988 when the original free trade agreement was created, I was a high school student and there was a teacher who walked around wearing a “Don’t Trade Me” button on his lapel and that he put up posters in his classroom that featured caricatures of Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan with the comment “Canada does not belong to these two men”. I thought of that often when I would see people I knew in high school who would make sanctimonious posts and comments on Facebook about the U.S. and Trump and the tariffs.


8 posted on 04/10/2025 5:37:01 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sir_Humphrey

BTTT


9 posted on 04/10/2025 5:39:06 AM PDT by nopardons
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: HighSierra5

Yeah, that’s why they have long supported tariffs and the GOP, until a week ago, opposed them.


10 posted on 04/10/2025 6:30:57 AM PDT by GrootheWanderer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Sir_Humphrey

Only reason they hate them they can’t scam any money off them.


11 posted on 04/10/2025 7:13:23 AM PDT by Vaduz
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sir_Humphrey

This is the source of their personal wealth. They use insider trading to get cash. Then, they cut deals with the CCP to invest in Chinese companies, possibly in the names of their family members. They then pass laws making it impossible for US companies to compete against their investments.

Tariffs screw all that up.

Anyone protesting is probably in the bag of foreign investments. I’m looking at you, RandPaul!!


12 posted on 04/10/2025 9:11:51 AM PDT by bobbo666
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson