Allow me educate you about protectionism from 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 classical conservatism is protectionist, Neo Conservatism, ala Bully Kristol, is for free trade even if we are getting screwed when other countries protect their markets with tariffs. SO NOW YOU KNOW Conservatism includes protectionism!
Socialists love free trade. Marx wrote extensively about it and was a big proponent of free trade. So if you are free trader you are Marxist tool
The Republicans of 1924 supported and gave WMDs to the Marxist regime of Mexico so the Marxists could expand their genocide of the devout Catholics and libertarians who were fighting for religious freedom.
And you call those Marxist loving Republican Conservative?