The only reason HW Bush lost to Clinton is that Ross Perot took 20% of the popular vote (all Republicans and independents) not the 'weak economy' as this story reads.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/george-hw-bush-41st-president-of-the-united-states-dies-at-94/2018/11/30/42fa2ea2-61e2-11e8-99d2-0d678ec08c2f_story.html?utm_term=.f9c8af7fa130
I'm a lifelong liberal Democrat, but it is a straight fact that Clinton's signing of GATT and the WTO sold out the US working person and exploded corporate gains. The stock market skyrocketed, our manufacturing base went to China and all that made room for a phony populist like Trump to trick his way into office.
NAFTA was actually a good deal. If our manufacturing jobs had simply gone to Central and South America, it would have been good for the American continental economy and spared us many of the immigration/poverty/crime ills we now face.
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