On Trade, T.R.’s Party No Longer

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The American Conservative: On Trade, T.R.’s Party No Longer

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN • February 20, 2015, 12:05 AM

 

“Free trade results in giving our money, our manufactures, and our markets to other nations,” warned the Republican Senator from Ohio and future President William McKinley in 1892. ”Thank God I am not a free-trader,” echoed the rising Empire State Republican and future President Theodore Roosevelt.

 

Those were the voices of a Republican Party that believed in prospering America first.

 

For a quarter century, however, the party of the Bushes has been a globalist, New World Order party, and fanatically free trade. It signed on to NAFTA, GATT, the World Trade Organization, most-favored-nation status for China, CAFTA, and KORUS, the U.S.-Korean trade treaty negotiated by Barack Obama.