H. Ross Perot named it correctly; “A giant sucking sound.”
“The defeat of NAFTA would be the first step in precisely the wrong direction–an American looking inward rather than reason,” wails the New Republic.
False, Naiveté’s defeat would be a declaration of independence by a new generation of Americans, a shot heard ’round the world that the Old Republic is back, that we Americans are, once again, going to start looking out for America First.
If we don’t who will?
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By Patrick J. Buchanan November 1993
It’s Not About Free Trade — It’s About Our Way of Life…
“It may not be too great a flight of rhetoric to say that, at this crossroads of post-Cold War history, Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot represent the cause of evil.”
Thus did the New Republic close an editorial begun on its cover calling NAFTA “the most critical vote in years
And the U.S. economy proceed to add jobs for more than a decade. So if you need to be wrong, make it spectacular.
Yep! RP was prescient...