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...parties," which is pretty much what Ross Perot said in 1992. And on the issues Perot took up?the budget deficit and NAFTA?he had a point. With Americans angry about the economy and angry at Washington, Perot made NAFTA?which both George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton supported???a symbol of the public's discontent. Perot won 19% of the vote, mostly among downscale Republicans and independents who had backed Reagan during the cold war but by then feared Mexico almost as much as they had feared the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bloomberg Delusion | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

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