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Pat Buchanan ties together GOP establishment's immigration and trade policies
Howard Richman, 2/3/2014

In a commentary last week (How the GOP Lost Middle America), Pat Buchanan ties together the Republican establishment's positions on immigration and trade. He wrote:

To understand why and how the Republican Party lost Middle America, and faces demographic death, we need to go back to Bush I.

At the Cold War’s end, the GOP reached a fork in the road. The determination of Middle Americans to preserve the country they grew up in, suddenly collided with the profit motive of Corporate America.

The Fortune 500 wanted to close factories in the USA and ship production abroad — where unions did not exist, regulations were light, taxes were low, and wages were a fraction of what they were here in America.

Corporate America was going global and wanted to be rid of its American work force, the best paid on earth, and replace it with cheap foreign labor.

While manufacturing sought to move production abroad, hotels, motels, bars, restaurants, farms and construction companies that could not move abroad also wanted to replace their expensive American workers.

Thanks to the Republican Party, Corporate America got it all.

The only trouble with his analysis is that it doesn't explain why the Democratic establishment is also selling out the American people. Why are they backing immigration reform and unilateral free trade? Both parties working together have sold out this country's workers and are working together to continue the process. Immigration reform and Fast Track to a Bad Deal are being promoted by the leaderships of both parties.