It's a serious problem when people, especially conservatives, argue for a command economy rather than free(r) markets. Believing that government is better suited to determine winners and losers, rather than hundreds of millions of people making billions of decisions in which they benefit, will not end well.
Like our friend with the foul mouth, most of these folks don't even grasp the fact that protectionism gave us the federal income tax. Republicans, in their zeal to pass the Payne-Aldrich tariff, gladly agreed to the 16th Amendment being foisted on the country by the democrats, in return for democrat support of of the tariff. Protectionistas have inflicted immense damage on our society over the past century yet they are still here arguing for the same failed ideas. What is that definition of insanity......?
NAFTA is nothing but a political way to get US taxpayers to subsidize corporate profits. It is corporate welfare.