Ridiculous to think the USA is not in a one sided trade war now. This just shows how disingenuous your whole argument is.
None of you Free Traitors™ can ever explain how the USA did so well as an extreme protectionist nation for the first 130 years of its existence. Please let me hear you bad mouth President Washington for signing tariff act after tariff act. Go ahead and trash the founding fathers for protectionism. I dare you. You don't have the cojones.
The history of tariffs is interesting. The American Revolution was fought in good part against the mercantilist (protectionist) policies of Great Britain.
Once the US was formed, there has been a continual struggle between free-traders and protectionists, and the tariff has gone up and down. In the years before the income tax, some (smallish) level of tariff was needed to fund the government. It’s not true that we were “an extreme protectionist nation for the first 130 years”. You need to distinguish between (low) tariffs for revenue generation and (high) tariffs for protectionism.
The Tariff of 1789 was generally not high, 5% for most items, and the primary purpose was revenue generation; this was in the days before an income tax. It was only in 1816 that a strongly protectionist tariff was passed. (It’s not the Founding Fathers who were extremely protectionist, but the next generation.)
In the 19th century, the economy could tolerate some protectionism. With no income tax, without onerous government regulations, and with the built-in growth of a continent to settle, we had a primarily free-market economy in spite of the tariff. The tariff was a drag on the economy, but the positives generally overwhelmed that. (On the other hand, we would have grown even more without protectionist tariffs, and studies have shown that the early protectionist tariffs didn’t really help the industries they were intended to assist.)
Now, with an income tax and with overbearing regulations, we can ill afford the fallacy of protectionism. Speaking of “cojones”, I notice that you didn’t address the main point — that protectionist policies produce a drag on the economy as a whole, even though they may benefit a small number of individuals. Their cost is far greater than their benefit.
Finally, calling me a “traitor” is offensive. I want what is best for the US, and I believe you do too. You may think I am wrong, and that the policies I propose would be bad for the country, but that doesn’t make me a traitor; it would just make me wrong. I think you are wrong, and the the policies you propose would be bad for the country, but that doesn’t make you a traitor either; it would just make you wrong.
You may want to be careful on any platform where people use real names or are identifiable — calling someone a traitor may be libelous under those circumstances.