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[–] goat2017 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Market liberalization and global free trade have been historically leftist concepts. Modern conservatives are economically classical liberals. Paleocons and a variety of older school right wing types typically support trade protection on a case by case basis.

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[–] 8Ball [S] ago 

The case by case basis meaning that they would only engage in free trade if the countries we traded with were more or less on equal footing with ours and weren't third world countries with lower wage rates we couldn't compete with?

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[–] goat2017 ago 

That would be the general idea. You make trade agreements because its beneficial to your own country. Not because you have some grand global development ideology.

Fun fact: Karl Marx supported global free trade. He believed if you eroded the power of national governments and put bankers and global capitalists in charge of everything in a society the society would eventually undergo a communist revolution.