Every number I quoted above is accurate. Smoot-Hawley caused 3.5% GDP destruction and approx 5% unemployment for a decade. How can a country that is a net exporter not be hurt when international trade comes to a screeching halt, if there4 is no corresponding domestic demand to take up the slack? This is one of the few facts of economics that isn’t even counterintuitive.
Two events happened at the same time. To pin it on Smoot Hawly is absurd
What part of “trade was 5% of GDP’ do you not understand? You can take your numbers and throw them in the ocean. You are a free market ideologue who will dig up anything that gives you a glimmer of hope