I began to realize the GOP was goofy when it liked "free trade" something Karl Marx liked too back in 1848 because it was so destructive. Protectionism is basically the economic foundation of conservatism and American economics (Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun and the great German-American economist, Friedrich List). Even the great John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) dumped free trade for Protectionism in the early 1930s and never looked back.