You are perfectly free to use your free choice by shunning cheaper and better foreign products. All I ask is that you don't ask others to put a gun to my head to prevent my from making the free choice to buy these products. Your German analogy is actually a good one. Had the U.S. exercised free trade (instead of set off a trade war through Smoot-Hawley in 1931) Hitler may have never even come to power.
cheaper and better foreign products. Cheaper, yes. Better? Doubtful.
All I ask is that you don't ask others to put a gun to my head to prevent my from making the free choice to buy these products.
Never had that intention. But when we go to war with the Chinese, and they shoot you down using weapons bought and paid for with your own money, the last thought that goes through your mind should be "How cheaply were these products purchased?"