Free trade is fine. I say this without the “buts” that negate everything to the left of the conjunction.
The protectionist ideas of Hoover and Roosevelt do not work. Hopefully we don’t have to live through the 1930s again for this point to be relearned.
Zackly. Too much stupidity on both sides. Mostly, it’s people who are big naysayers but offer nothing better in return.
First, what we now have is NOT Free Trade. As Milton Friedman said of NAFTA, "it is not free trade, it is managed trade".
Secondly, why do we have to go to the opposite extreme of isolationism? Either extreme is just as dangerous. Extremes always are, regardless of what the globalists insist.