Go watch the 1992 presidential debate. Ross Perot stood on that stage with two free traders -- Bill Clinton and George HW Bush -- and warned Americans of exactly what NAFTA would do to their jobs. It was very prescient.

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Go watch the 1992 presidential debate. Ross Perot stood on that stage with two free traders -- Bill Clinton and George HW Bush -- and warned Americans of exactly what NAFTA would do to their jobs. It was very prescient. (nitter.net)

...Yet he was the one the media depicted as a crazy crackpot.

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Ross Perot was the first person I ever voted for in an election.

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Ross Perot was the first person I ever voted for in an election.

Ron Paul in 1988 was mine.

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https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FGnvM-LnXkAAblmZ.jpg

Interesting graph showing it wasn’t necessarily NAFTA. NAFTA helped nothing, but it was fuel to an already burning (((fire))).

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NAFTA helped nothing, but it was fuel to an already burning (((fire))).

The perfect way to describe it.

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