Mike Pence Quotes
I support free trade, and so does Donald Trump.
Pence, Mike. "2016 Vice Presidential Debate." Commission on Presidential Debates, 4 Oct. 2016, Longwood University, Farmville, VA. Debate.
Democratic politicians of that era mostly opposed free trade because the experience ever since NAFTA showed that many manufacturing jobs were lost in the United States although many new jobs were created but few of these were good paying jobs that Americans with limited educations could perform as they were able to with manufacturing jobs. And during that period, the requirements for fair trade and foreign workers rights have been very poorly enforced. The Democrats split between those who thought that new trade treaties could be negotiated and enforced, correcting the problems of the past, and those who did not believe that such proper free trade was very likely.
The U. S. was very protectionist in its early history. Grant overestimated the time that it would take for us to change by about 100 years.
Michael Richard Pence is an American politician, broadcaster, and lawyer who served as the 48th vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he was the 50th governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017. Pence was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013.
