[nopardons]

Oh goody, you also don'/t know nor understand ANYTHING whatsoever about the FFs, what the government was like under them, nor what they considered themselves to be.

Until Woodrow Wilson, there was NO Federal income tax at all! Our government collected the money to run the government with TARIFFS!

The nation/government was divided between the FEDERALISTS and the ANTI-FEDERALISTS!

The European "ENLIGHTENMENT MOVEMENT" included some real nut jobs, such as Rousseau, who would be/is considered to be an EXTREME LEFTY today.

This nation was based on English Common law, Judeo-Christian and Masonic principles, and the good old Protestant work ethic.

This has ALWAYS, until very recently, been a NATIONALISTIC/PATRIOTIC and PROTECTIONIST one.

[Sasha_S]

I understand quite a bit more than you seem to be willing to give me credit for.

You DO realize that tariffs are essentially just taxes in a different form, right? They get passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices, all the while stifling trade, employment, and innovation.

The Federalist/Anti-Federalist era ended LONG before Wilson. And Hamilton, Mr. Protectionist, was a Federalist (hint - the Federalists were the ‘Big Government’ guys of their era)

All intellectual movements contain people all over the radar. Just because Rousseau was a product of the same era does not mean he was a classical liberal.

Now keep telling me how I don’t understand Anything about this nation’s founding. Little Donald calls people names (that’s part of why I call him ‘Little Donald’). You can call me ignorant, but that doesn’t make it so.