So what are you protecting? LOL!
Anyways, you are historically wrong.
As noted in Time Magazine:
[T]he faces on Mount Rushmore are those of... protectionists...George Washington was a Buy American booster who boasted that he drank only U.S.-brewed ale, and Thomas Jefferson came over to that side as President. Both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt assailed free trade. T.R.'s view: "Pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fiber."
Reviewing this background, historian Alfred E. Eckes Jr. in his 1995 book, Opening America's Market, concludes that the protectionist U.S. grew much faster than free-trade Britain between 1871 and 1913, and that the post-World War II competitive position of the American economy weakened greatly after the 1968-72 period, when a U.S.-led round of sharp tariff cuts went into effect.
Eckes, Prof. History at Ohio University, served as Chairman of Ronald Reagan's International Trade Commission in the 1980s and has an insider's knowledge of American trade politics