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The Grand Old Protectionist PartyHey, it's not just Democrats who are killing free trade.

By Daniel GrossUpdated Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006, at 6:37 AM ET

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A version of this piece appears in the Washington Post Outlook section.

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Daniel Gross is the Moneybox columnist for Slate and the business columnist for Newsweek. You can e-mail him at and follow him on Twitter. His latest book, Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation, has just been published in paperback.
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