TechCentralStation is the absolute worst of the so called "conservative" web sites, worse than the WSJ op ed pages, worse than the Weekly Standard. The pundits have around a room temperature IQ it seems, just throwing down a bunch of cheap slogans.
That anyone can defend todays version of "free" trade, how it is practiced, how it is stripping the wealth and technological advantage of the US to other nations that are hostile to the US, how it is taking the US own economic destiny out of her hands, how "free" trade along with near unlimited immigration is going to turn the US into a poor copy of a European social democracy, just is beyond me.
Funny you should mention cheap slogans when that is ALL you posted.
Sorry but your understanding of Economics seems stuck in the 1930s. Go read about a guy name Hoover. He and a Republican Congress passed the last major protectionist tariff. It was a complete economic disaster.
The "Statists" in question here are people such as yourself, Paul Craig Roberts etc who want to use the Govt to impose their personal economic dogma of extreme xenophobia on the Free Market. Sorry, History proves the Protectionists are on the wrong side of Capitalism.\
Seems the Conservative Principal of LIMITED GOVERMENT doesn't apply to the Economic Dinosaur wing of the movement.
Evolve or die Econmic Dinosaurs.