(Even people like Jeff Faux. He starts, really, with Clinton's betrayal, but Democratic free trade and universalism and 'trade pacifism' (Cobdenism), went much farther back.
Also, the rise of the bi partisan elites he rightly excoriates, deriving from the large monopolies and early multi national corporations, did not spring 'full blown from the head of Zeus' only at the time of Ronald Reagan, or even at the time of Sovereignty At Bay, 1960s to 1971. Vernon and others, Mills for example, had chronicled their rise back into the 19th Century.)
That has not been the case. Globalization came on strong with Woodrow Wilson, and the Cobdenists of his time, especially driven by events of WW I, toward some international peace keeping organs. Of course there were US agriciltural interests and industrial interests. Ford wanted to sell cars even then, the 20s, in Europe.
The US majority at that time was more sympathetic to social welfare programs and politics, and against big private monopolies and trusts; they were reluctant even to enter WWI a 'rich man's war', until the Russian Revolution occurred, which American elites totally misconstrued at that time, as George Kennan so poignantly pointed out in Russia and The West Under Lenin and Stalin.
Greater international trade, believe it or not, in some bourgeois circles, was seen then as a peace keeping activity among nations.
And then of course the American South had always been a free trade oriented area, especially after WW I.
See Eckes, Vernon.
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