"Thank God I am not a free-trader," echoed the rising Empire State Republican and future President Theodore Roosevelt.

Those were the voices of a Republican Party that believed in prospering America first. 

For a quarter century, however, the party of the Bushes has been a globalist, New World Order party, and fanatically free trade. 

It signed on to NAFTA, GATT, the World Trade Organization, most-favored-nation status for China, CAFTA, and KORUS, the U.S.-Korean trade treaty negotiated by Barack Obama.

So supportive have Republicans been of anything sold as free trade they have agreed to "fast track," the voluntary surrender by Congress of its constitutional power "to regulate commerce with foreign nations." 

With fast track, Congress gives up its right to amend trade treaties, and agrees to restrict itself to a yea or nay vote.