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Former WSJ editor Robert J Bartley was the first to introduce the idea of "supply side economics" to the public in the mid-1970s. He won a Pulitzer prize and a President medal of freedom" award for it, too. President Reagan adopted the idea during his presidency and his predecessor, GHWBush called it "Voodoo" economics and GWBush gave him the medal of freedom award in 2003. Few can deny that the WSJ has played a key roll in conceiving and promoting the free market for the last 45 years....
Since the WSJ practically wrote the book on the free market and it's become a big part of the GOP platform and lexicon, is it hypocritical for the GOP and it's new nominee to still claim to be for a free market but against open borders and immigration?
"...Robert Leroy Bartley (October 12, 1937 - December 10, 2003) was the editor of the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal for more than 30 years. He won a Pulitzer Prize for opinion writing and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the Bush administration in 2003. Bartley was famed for providing a conservative interpretation of the news every day, especially regarding economic issues...
A supporter of NAFTA, Bartley is said to have observed to a former colleague, Peter Brimelow, "I think the nation-state is finished." Alongside his support for the free flow of goods, Bartley supported the free flow of labour across borders. He controversially wrote in favor of open borders and high rates of immigration to the United States. After then Mexican President, Vicente Fox, declared in a speech in 2001 that "NAFTA should evolve into something like the European Union, with open borders for not only goods and investment but also people", Bartley wrote in support of having open borders between Mexico and the United States.[7] Indeed, in that July 2, 2001 Wall Street Journal editorial, Bartley reminded readers that "during the immigration debate of 1984 we suggested an ultimate goal to guide passing policies--a constitutional amendment: 'There shall be open borders.'"[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Bartley
A supporter of NAFTA, Bartley is said to have observed to a former colleague, Peter Brimelow, "I think the nation-state is finished." Alongside his support for the free flow of goods, Bartley supported the free flow of labour across borders. He controversially wrote in favor of open borders and high rates of immigration to the United States. After then Mexican President, Vicente Fox, declared in a speech in 2001 that "NAFTA should evolve into something like the European Union, with open borders for not only goods and investment but also people", Bartley wrote in support of having open borders between Mexico and the United States.[7] Indeed, in that July 2, 2001 Wall Street Journal editorial, Bartley reminded readers that "during the immigration debate of 1984 we suggested an ultimate goal to guide passing policies--a constitutional amendment: 'There shall be open borders.'"[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Bartley
The Journal editorial page's real influence lies in its ability to set the agenda for conservative intellectuals and Republican politicians. "From 1978 on," says Burton Pines, the former head of the American Enterprise Institute, "the single most important intellectual influence in America's conservative community has been the Wall Street Journal editorial page." Edwin Feulner, the president of the Heritage Foundation, another right-wing Washington think tank, calls the Journal "the real standard bearer for what is conservative orthodoxy."
The most famous example of the Journal's leadership is, of course, supply-side economics. In the mid-1970s, the Journal discovered, popularized and named the theory. Originally developed by University of Chicago economist Arthur Laffer and later embellished by Journal editorial writer Jude Wanniski, supply-side cut against the grain of traditional economics. Its basic tenet was simple: Cut taxes on the wealthy and their investments would stimulate the economy. The Treasury would not sustain a loss because the subsequent economic growth would generate more tax revenue, not less.
Throughout the latter years of the decade the Journal zealously promoted supply-side. In 1980, presidential candidate George Bush called it "voodoo economics," but his soon-to-be boss Ronald Reagan recognized the popular appeal of a no-pain, only-gain solution to the federal deficits that had grown during the Carter years. After Reagan was elected he embraced supply-side economics as administration policy. The Wall Street Journal had pulled off a palace coup. " The creation and implementation of the supply-side economic theory is unprecedented in journalism editorial history," says Eric Alterman, the author of "Sound & Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics." "To ask what else the Journal has done is like asking what else Einstein did besides the theory of relativity."
American Journalism Review
The most famous example of the Journal's leadership is, of course, supply-side economics. In the mid-1970s, the Journal discovered, popularized and named the theory. Originally developed by University of Chicago economist Arthur Laffer and later embellished by Journal editorial writer Jude Wanniski, supply-side cut against the grain of traditional economics. Its basic tenet was simple: Cut taxes on the wealthy and their investments would stimulate the economy. The Treasury would not sustain a loss because the subsequent economic growth would generate more tax revenue, not less.
Throughout the latter years of the decade the Journal zealously promoted supply-side. In 1980, presidential candidate George Bush called it "voodoo economics," but his soon-to-be boss Ronald Reagan recognized the popular appeal of a no-pain, only-gain solution to the federal deficits that had grown during the Carter years. After Reagan was elected he embraced supply-side economics as administration policy. The Wall Street Journal had pulled off a palace coup. " The creation and implementation of the supply-side economic theory is unprecedented in journalism editorial history," says Eric Alterman, the author of "Sound & Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics." "To ask what else the Journal has done is like asking what else Einstein did besides the theory of relativity."
American Journalism Review
Since the WSJ practically wrote the book on the free market and it's become a big part of the GOP platform and lexicon, is it hypocritical for the GOP and it's new nominee to still claim to be for a free market but against open borders and immigration?