In January, then-president elect Trump told the German newspaper Bild about BMWs coming to the U.S. from a plant scheduled to open in Mexico in 2019 “They can build cars for the US, but they’ll pay 35 percent taxes on every car that comes to the US.” BMW has fallen to second place in the luxury […]
Paul Ryan Takes Lincoln’s Name in Vain
Back when Paul Ryan was still holding out on endorsing Donald Trump as the GOP nominee, he referenced “free trade” as a pillar of the Party of Lincoln. In response, Pat Buchanan put the lie to that claim. Thanks to my client Kushro Ghandi for sending this post along for a look back. Readers very much enjoyed […]
2000-2010: 55,000 U.S. Factories Close
Over this period, Pat Buchanan writes, 5 to 6 million manufacturing jobs were lost in the U.S. As Pat notes, we need not look further than job-killing NAFTA, GATT, and MFN for China, all championed by Bill and Hill, the GOP establishment, and the globalization crowd at the WSJ. Now we are staring at the […]
Why Republicans Must Kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership
In fact all American voters must demand that their elected representatives in Washington turn thumbs down on what Pat Buchanan calls the “largest trade deal in history.” Mr. Buchanan highlights that pressure for “fast track” on TPP is coming from two sources: The editorial pages of papers like The Wall Street Journal and The Washington […]