Robert Lighthizer gave the Friday night keynote address at ISI's American Economic Forum. This controversial speech challenged many of the conservative movement's established views about free trade. Full Speech: bit.ly/3Di4fk4
Conserve the individual's right to spend and save their money however they see fit. Conserve rights to property and organization within private enterprise. Trade should remain free from coercion and force. The government's primary goal should be to protect the rights of individuals and not to interfere in economy. Pride is a natural result of production.
Free traders like to call their failures to take good action "globalization" as if the gutting of manufacturing is a law of physics. The government take no end of efforts to regulate domestic and international trade. As long as it is done it should be done with an interest to keeping jobs and manufacturing inside the US, and not to serve some wall streets banks goal of profit.
"Countries that trade don't make war" is exactly right. China has not been to war since 1978 (even then it was a few weeks). In that same perios of time it's the US which has been very active in war, and in the preparation of future wars.
You're not free to trade with anyone. Can you go to China and purchase property? They can come here and buy your land. Free trade is just a buzz word for scammers.
