I’m skeptical about tariffs since it’s always been a lib thing, but maybe we could use a Mexico-only tariff as a test of sorts. Don’t pass any broader tariffs until we see the results of the Mexico one.
Tariffs were a basic principle of the Republican Party and Conservatism until the globalist hijacked the party starting with Ike.. George Washington was a protectionist.
The 1924 Republican Platform:
We reaffirm our belief in the protective tariff to extend needed protection to our productive industries. We believe in protection as a national policy, with due and equal regard to all sections and to all classes. It is only by adherence to such a policy that the well being of the consumers can be safeguarded that there can be assured to American agriculture, to American labor and to American manufacturers a return to perpetrate American standards of life. A protective tariff is designed to support the high American economic level of life for the average family and to prevent a lowering to the levels of economic life prevailing in other lands.
So now you know better right?
1860 GOP winning platform:
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29620
...12. That, while providing revenue for the support of the general government by duties upon imports, sound policy requires such an adjustment of these imports as to encourage the development of the industrial interests of the whole country; and we commend that policy of national exchanges, which secures to the workingmen liberal wages, to agriculture remunerative prices, to mechanics and manufacturers an adequate reward for their skill, labor, and enterprise, and to the nation commercial prosperity and independence...