Tariffs and protectionism are more of a socialist nature.
Not always. It could also be a form of patriotism, and to protect fair trade, so that healthy competition will be availible. The value of Yuan is set wrong, and the COMMUNIST China has not changed the value much despite warnings from US. We are facing an unhealthy and unfair trade, benifitting China that fills COMMUNIST China's pocket with money to have them build more advanced military equipments that could threat our country.
Well that is what Limbaugh and t he WSJ op ed pages say, but in historical reality, that is far from being the truth. Tariffs are in fact specifically mentioned in the constitution. Tariffs were used in pre FDR America, when the US govrenmnet in terms of economics was libertarian in nature. It is amazing how bankrupt mainstream "conservatism" is now.