Those who are concerned about this have every right to be concerned, most competent economists view the rush to protectionism as the factor that broke world trade and turned a bad recession into the Great Depression, setting up the rise of Hitler when the German economy, just emerging from a terrible local depression caused by years of political turmoil and war reparations, was crushed to the mat again by the collapse of the world trading system.
first off, 'economists' are a big reason why the wests economy is in the pits..
2ndly, buy america & even tariffs are WHAT BUILT THIS COUNTRY ...
anyone who tells you differently is lying to you...
the USA has had & still has THE most resources on planet earth & for nearly 400 years, the entire world has wanted what this continent has had ....now more than ever...
AMERICA FIRST isn't about unions at all....it was the battecry of our founding founders & their economy was based on a solid IMPORT TARRIFF that got other countries to pay our taxes while our labor/manufacturing consistently had work ...
since the tarriffs have all been lifted the past 50 years or so, look what has happened to US manufacturing & now, the entire US economy, as well as our safety...
its a shame the Dimorats were the America First party this go round...that used to be the platform of the Republicans...
America First is why Reagans tax cuts/voodoo economics & dealings w/ china & the world didn't bankrupt our country & why GWB's did ...
GWB forgot to include an america first clause while we had wide open borders, no tarriffs & borrowed trillions of dollars from foreign countries...