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Indeed FREE-TRADE is a LEFTWING POLICY! Just as FREE-IMMIGRATION! and OPEN BORDERS!!

While I agree that Free-Immigration and Open Borders are a policy of the left, I've got to disagree with you on the issue of Free Trade. Freetrade is not a Leftwing Policy. One of the reasons the founders revolted against England was because of the tariffs that were being imposed for doing business outside the English Empire. Ever since the Guilded age, the rise of the Industrial Revolution, and the build up of the unions, the left have turned Free Trade into the "demon working against the working class". Now don't get me wrong, I don't belive for a heartbeat that we should be doing business with the Commies, not for economic reasons, but because you should do business only with people you can trust. Ronald Reagan gave the formula for dealing with the Commies in the Cold War and that's to cut them off and oppose them at every turn. Free Trade with China is clearly a bad policy, but not because free trade is bad.