What a useless argument, especially since the position most protectionists take favors more state intervention. So in other words, "You fear socialism? We must try socialism!" What a joke.
You have never been able to frame an arguemnet 1rudeboy that goes beyond slogans and rhetoric. First off, and I am sure you have read this hundreds of times, restriction of immigration and tariffs are not Socialist in the least, and it is what this country did untill the Carter era. Sen. Taft, who was a conservatives conservative was no free trader for an example. Sadly the GOP has gone further way from mainstreet and has become closer to wall street. It seems like despte lip service to conservatives, the Nelson Rockefeller wing of the GOP has finally won.
It's a joke if you don't think we have extremely high levels of socialism --- even to keep people from being counted as unemployed when they are over 18 and not working and receiving money from the government. We've got Socialism --- tariffs have nothing to do with that. TANF, Food Stamps, WIC, housing subsidies, NAFTA displaced workers assistance, free reeducation programs provided by the taxpayers, SSDI, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and on and on and on --- and if those were ended, are there jobs that people could start doing to be self-reliant?