America’s Free Ride Is Over.

The Reckoning of Tariffs, Trade, and the Forgotten Middle Class

In 1992, during a heated presidential race, billionaire businessman Ross Perot sounded the alarm. If America joined NAFTA, he warned, we would hear a "giant sucking sound" of jobs being pulled out of the country. He was right. But his warning was mocked, buried by media pundits and career politicians eager to embrace a globalized economy that would soon…