You know little about history don’t you? Hoover enacted Smoot-Hawley. Roosevelt actually wanted free trade...not that trade mattered as much back then of course because it was like 6% of GDP. As for all the ideological based opinions like yours about how trade caused the depression blah blah and Roosevelt’s big spending didn’t help, I would point out one fact...most of you say..it was the war that did it-pulled us out of the depression...well maybe. But what was the war but one huge spending spree and governmental jobs program? One could argue with some success that Roosevelt didn’t spend enough to end the depression as he actually believed in balanced budgets (balanced budge and cut spending in 1936 which cause another recession in 1937 and higher unemployment but never as high as 1933) and was forced to spend during the war.
Now for our modern age, look around you take off your ideology blinders...free trade is destroying this country as practiced today. It has lead to the loss of millions of good paying American jobs and will in the end lead to socialism...but the globalists not happy with destroying entire American industries, communities and even states now want to replace the few decent jobs left with outsourcing and insourcing. The are free traitors and are more dangerous to this country than even Al Quada.