Yes indeed. America took a thirty year test drive of “free trade”.
In 2016 we handed the keys back and said “no sale”.
Today there are not enough voters out there who believe in neoliberal free trade theory to win elections any longer. Ideological purity has become a losing strategy.
The GOP fails to heed this lesson at their peril.
Troof. Will also add, the ideological purists on free trade ignore slave labor, currency manipulation, governments underwriting businesses to allow them to operate at a loss until they drive competitors out of business, product dumping to crash markets, the fact that other countries still have high tariffs on our goods, and other nefarious activities.
This is the problem with ideological purity on a lot of subjects. While the purists are patting themselves on the back about their purity, the realists are figuring out how to use their purity to destroy them.