[Dane]

"Free trade" is the traditional doctrine of Democrats - are you, or were you, one?

Huh, Ronald Reagan was also a free trader.

Time for you brigadiers to get out the gifs of Reagan in tar and feathers.

[Tokhtamish]

Protection has been the position of economic nationalism since the party of Lincoln, McKinley, Taft, etc.

There is nothing at all intrinsically conservative about free trade. It is entirely a question of what serves America's interests, not your globalist free-trade "citizen of the world" agenda.

[sarcasm]

I see you are avoiding answering the question.