I am fine with the concept of “Free Trade”, but the reality is, we don’t currently have, and have not in my lifetime had “Free Trade”.
The difference is, in the past, we were wealthy enough as a nation to sweep unfair trade practices under the carpet in order to focus on other things.
We are broke as a nation, and can no longer afford to do that.
Rand Paul is of the same mindset as the globalists when it comes to free trade, tariffs on US goods and the US has allowed this to happen and it’s destroyed the middle class that both parties claim to care about when in reality they don’t