I wouldn't hasten to blame outsourcing on one political party or the other. Those of us old enough to remember Ross Perot and his "giant sucking sound" (his projection that free trade agreements under consideration in the early 1990s would lead to outsourcing and negative outcomes for the American economy) also remember that he was a third-party candidate. Both of the big parties and their candidates (Bush and Clinton back then) supported philosophies of trade that would (and in retrospect did) lead to outsourcing. Until Trump, neither party was willing to commit political capital towards questioning the free trade orthodoxy in any meaningful way, and it was free trade that lowered barriers to outsourcing.
> I wouldn't hasten to blame outsourcing on one political party or the other.
I don't blame it on one political party, I'm setting the blame record straight. The current admin blames the Democrats for everything including outsourcing, when in fact only some Democrats tried to prevent it from going too far.
> Ross Perot and his "giant sucking sound"
The guy damaged the independent candidate idea more than anyone because he was politically illiterate - a common occurrence among big ego business owners.
> Until Trump, neither party was willing to commit political capital towards questioning the free trade orthodoxy.
On the contrary, The GOP and the Trump admin are trying to make political capital by hyping ridiculously implemented tariffs which fuel inflation, kill the dollar and put a lot of small businesses in danger. Trump doesn't even rise to the level of Perot, rumors are already floating around about who's actually running the show.
"Questioning the free trade orthodoxy" isn't the same as doing the right thing at the right time and place. We get tariffs at arbitrary levels, on a haywire timetable and that cannot be good for anything besides speculation, which the people pay for via inflation.
