[Thorin]

>>>>>>>"Believed"? All of them, as politicians, realized how effective tariffs can be as a political strategy.

Read what they wrote. They believed in tariffs because they saw them as protecting American workers and our standard of living and preserving America's political independence.

>>>>>>Putting words in someone else's mouth is so much nicer than actually going through the difficult task of coming up with a coherent argument on one's own, isn't it?

No, you're the one who attacked Buchanan's "socialism," which you based on his protectionism. A lazy smear, typical of the neocons, and reflective of an ignorance of American history.

[ex-snook]

Isn't it great that few have even attempted to refute Pat's article. What bugs some posters is Pat puts America before all countries and working American citizens before new world order economic interests.

Pat is obviously right for America. He is like an old time prophet calling attention to needed corrections and just like them, he is hated for it.

[wideawake]

Read what they wrote.

I have. And it's precisely because I have that I know you mischaracterize their positions.

No, you're the one who attacked Buchanan's "socialism," which you based on his protectionism.

Protectionism is socialist, of course, but to be fair, Buchanan also embraced Leninist psychotic Lenora Fulani openly and he also supports cartelization of labor.

A lazy smear, typical of the neocons, and reflective of an ignorance of American history.

I assume, in your historical view, no Americans ever supported free trade until some "neocons" of suspiciously foreign provenance invented the evil concept - probably in the early 70s. LOL!