Strongly concur with your statements, and offer the words of Jerry Pournelle, who asserts that “Laissez faire capitalism and free trade are effective at creating goods, more so than anything else, but unrestricted capitalism leads to organlegging and the sale of human flesh in the market place.”
And to be clear, Pournelle is very much against big government and especially any kind of totalitarianism or command economies,but who recognizes that capitalism must be tempered with morality.
Love Pournelle and completely agree. America succeeded because we tied the morality of Christianity with the economic might of the free market. That we’d return to this is my deepest wish.