So it has been patriotic to lose jobs, skills, and resources by engaging in trade policies that promote that outcome? I think the founding fathers would wholeheartedly disagree with you. They too had an America first outlook. Not a globalist wet dream one.
Actually, since the beginning, infact before the beginning, Americans have been traders. American ships carried American goods and returned with goods the Colonists wanted and needed.
Jefferson went to war very early on to protect American global commerce.
The early tariffs were established mostly because there was little else to tax. They tried to tax whiskey and got a mini revolution as a reward.