[GOPcapitalist]

during the days that Britain maintained a free trade policy and ran it's economy into second place behind the booming protectionist US.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc is insufficient as an argument for much of anything. Try again.

[Held_to_Ransom]

Forsan et haec olim meminesse inbabit.

If the US had only bought steel at the lowest prices from the days of the Civil War on, it would never have had any steel industry. Now, again, and again, explain just how great that would have been for the country.