United States and Free Trade

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Upton Sinclair, the famed socialist and author of The Jungle:


"The eloquent senator was explaining the system of protection; an ingenious device whereby the workingman permitted the manufacturer to charge him higher prices, in order that he might receive higher wages; thus taking his money out of his pocket with one hand, and putting a part of it back with the other. To the senator this unique arrangement had somehow become identified with the higher verities of the universe."

Of course, this was back in the days when organized labor felt secure in their capital advantage over the poor countries of the world, and supported free trade. 

It is a funny quirk of contemporary America, that most of the, so called leftists in 2016 would have found themselves much more at home in McKinley's Republican party than among Bryan's Democrats back in 1896

Not really.