Protecting domestic manufacturing/industry is the proper role of government and has been so from the beginning.” -
I don’t.
“Some on the right believe in protecting farming with subsidies.”
And they are wrong. Helping a failed industry with bailout money is the opposite of what conservatives stand for. It’s no different than welfare, only for billionaires, instead of the poor.
“Financial institution are not bailed out because THEY CREATE NO WEALTH only transfer it.”
Yet they have - why are you defending that?
Was George Washington a conservative because he was a big fan of protecting domestic industry? A free trade country in a world practicing universal mercantilism will soon find it drained of all resources over time.