I argue that free markets are good for America and contrast that with the failed record of protectionism:

A more protectionist United States that tries to recreate the employment patterns of yesteryear would put countless existing jobs at risk. One of the things that makes America great is that much of the rest of the world desperately wants to do business with us. We’d be foolish to squander that position in world markets with self-inflicted wounds.
Hochman is right that economic policy should consider the national interest. Edmund Burke agreed, which is why he supported freer markets and freer trade. Burke was no utopian globalist, and he was no doctrinaire libertarian, but through careful study of how policies actually worked, he settled on economic liberalism as a worthy principle for Britain’s prosperity and prudently advocated liberal reforms in Parliament. Conservatives in the U.S. today ought to follow his lead by advocating the reduction of government intervention in the economy, not merely calling for a different style of it.

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