Sanders, of course is a Communist and a strong protectionist.
John Maynard Keynes was a strong protectionist — leading in large part to a worldwide Depression.
Big Labor is VERY protectionist. They have opposed almost every measure to reduce trade barriers.
As Daniel Griswold notes at Cato, “In the past 30 years, labor unions have pushed for higher trade barriers in the form of “domestic content” requirements for autos sold in the United States, import quotas for textiles and steel, and the Gephardt amendments of 1986–87 that would have imposed sanctions on imports from nations that ran large bilateral trade surpluses with the United States (Destler and Balint 1999: 19). More recently, unions have lobbied for higher tariffs, quotas, or outright bans on imported steel, tires made in China, and Mexican-driven trucks on
U.S. highways. Labor leaders lobbied hard for the “Buy American” provisions in the $800 billion stimulus package that Congress approved and President Obama signed in early 2009.”
https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/2010/1/cj30n1-10.pdf
Here is an article strongly supporting “progressive protectionism”:
http://progressiveprotectionism.com/wordpress/
The delusional “progressive” economist Paul Krugman is another protectionist:
https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/a-protectionist-moment/
Protectionism is a high-tax, Big Government policy.
BTW, TPP and NAFTA are not free-trade agreements.
True, at least in his later years.
... leading in large part to a worldwide Depression.
Maybe not so true. Keynes changed his views during the Depression. He was a free trader before that.
The delusional “progressive” economist Paul Krugman is another protectionist
That's also true. But not true of most recent Democrat presidents, who were strongly in favor of free trade and foreign trade agreements.
Protectionism (Smoot-Hawley) had no effect on the Great Depression. That is a flat out lie. Smoot-Hawley is a straw man invention of the globalist crowd.