[antinomian]

Actually it has gone on since Lincoln. Protectionism was one of the founding principles of the Republican party. The Union-Pacific railroad cost two thousand 1870’s dollars per mile more than it would have if there had been no tariff.

[lewislynn]

The Union-Pacific railroad cost two thousand 1870’s dollars per mile more than it would have if there had been no tariff.

And yet we and the Union-Pacific railroad survived.

[logician2u]

Actually it has gone on since Lincoln. Protectionism was one of the founding principles of the Republican party.

Worth repeating, in boldface.

Too many Lincoln-worshipping Republicans are completely clueless on the party's checkered past, from trade protectionism to making the world safe for American empire.

They know only that Honest Abe freed the slaves -- some of them, at least -- and kept the Union together by not declaring war against the Confederacy, but otherwise demolishing it.

[billbears]

Bump!