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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: craig crawford who wrote (236659)3/12/2002 4:54:14 AM
From: CYBERKEN  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
True. Free trade wasn't a "conservative" principle before WWII. The voters who were city-based (and thus farm product consumers, dependent on manufacturing) were generally for protectionism, while the heavy farm vote tended to be against it, as it inhibited the export markets. As you can see the voter base for protectionism has changed over the decades.

The emergent post WWII conservative movement relied on neo-classical, or supply-side economics as an alternative to the New Deal European-style socialism. The strength of the supply-side argument-along with the rapid radicalization of the old depression-era Democratic party-is what propelled the Republicans back into political parity (and probable dominance as the current decade moves along).
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