Throughout the Trump administration, Sen. Pat Toomey has been a lonely voice in favor of broad free-trade policies and a sharp critic of President Trump’s restrictionist approach. The Pennsylvania Republican has warned that Trump is creating precedents for executive branch policymaking that will haunt the GOP and the country for years to come.

Toomey contended in an interview with the Washington Examiner that it is “too early to tell” whether Trump has shifted the Republican Party on trade. He argued that the president has obscured how far away his policies, such as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, are from free-trade orthodoxy. Trump, he noted, typically presents deals such as USMCA as modernizing existing trade agreements and frames the alternative as pulling out of those deals. People who accept this are fooling themselves, Toomey said.