“Vance says he believes in Hamiltonian economics.”
You say that like its a bad thing Hamiltonian economics is a large reason why the US became an economic superpower.
Versus “free trade” which came from the British Empire and is designed to keep nations weak and merely consumer nations and exporters of raw materials to the manufacturing nation. In the modern world it is China instead of the British Empire.
We’ve seen the damage that the Bush, Clinton, Obama policies did to our nation and we’re not going back.
You utterly mischaracterize free trade, both in its history adn effects. Protectionism always makes economies weaker.