Protectionism is taxes on other people’s stuff. It’s not free trade or capitalism. It belongs in the socialism catagory.
If you are going to put massive regulatory, environmental and wage requirements on US product, you have to have a tariff to level the playing field, otherwise you are just permanently destroying US production as we'll always have a massive handicap. PS do you support importation of prescription drugs?
That is true, but it is also true that we can’t allow other countries to wage a one-sided trade war against us.
If they put tariffs on our goods, we need to put tariffs on theirs.