Everybody losses when trade is restricted by tariffs. When you put duties on our imports you decrease our access to higher quality lower price goods. The nations producing those goods will invariably put duties on our exports reducing our sales. The end result is everybody pays more and get's less. Free trade allows each nation to produce what it can produce best.
A leftist that's also a free trader LOL...wow. This is EXACTLY why Trump will do great with a new party because the democratic and republican establishment are anti American Worker!
Free trade has been widely support by both Republicans and Democrats. Trump has managed to turn it into a scapegoat for all of America's problem which is quite remarkable since he says he supports free trade. Of course that's just Donald's double speak.
He supports FAIR trade. We don't have FAIR trade. We have America getting taken advantage of. Of course its been supported in the establishment parties....anything to make them richer and the people poorer. Its why Trump will have MORE than enough support for a new party even if he doesn't run it or control it.
Trump has nothing. Tariffs worked 100 years ago. American got rich on globalization, but now that average Americans are getting screwed by it, you're trying to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Trump's plan won't work, because this isn't 100 years ago. Isolationism is a ship that has sailed and isn't coming back.