I am with you on Trump here, with the exception that his trade and tariff policies worry me.

If you start slapping tariffs on things, other countries retaliate and then there is a trade war, which is very bad for the economy. That whole Smooth-Hawley thing exacerbated problems for the U.S. and led to the Great depression.

If he clarifies it in the future, maybe it will be more clear. If it is like that isolationism act, then I am troubled by it.

No I didn't. If anything I said that picking a vice president that no one would want as president might be a bit of life insurance. But then, you never seem to get anything quite right.

I dated a girl known as smooth Holly once..

Actually, that tariff act was during a time when America had an abundance of manufacturing. The opposite is true today, and the trade deficit needs to be corrected even if it appears to be isolationism to some degree.

Funny how we would get accused of being isolationists simply for wanting to BALANCE the trade differential.

We can't let appearances and hurt feelings stop us from regaining our manufacturing base, which virtually by itself will rebuild the middle class.

That is the kinda girl you would like to meet your parents, isn't it?

As I said, he would need to clarify his trade proposal to ease my mind, but massive tariffs will not be a good thing.

Don't misinterpret that I am accusing you of being an isolationist.

I am saying I don't want the trade stance to be an isolationist one, where it actually harms the country by massive tariff action that will surely be retaliated agains and our exports will be hurt.

Pharma?

Weapons?

Other than food, we import our consumables and it's killing us. We claim the middle class is dying. We blame the 1% or we blame the illegals. But it's the lack of manufacturing.

We used to make sh*t. Lots of it. Because we were good at it.

And it spawned jobs. Careers. A middle class.

Cars, commercial aircraft, semiconductors, industrial machines, telecommunications, medical equipment, petroleum and petrol products, plastic and the like.

http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/usa/ 

http://useconomy.about.com/od/tradepolicy/p/Imports-Exports-Components.htm 

http://www.worldsrichestcountries.com/top_us_exports.html 

There is history as to what happens if we are too stringent on free trade and to dismiss it, would be folly.

Here is an interesting read on why have tariff reform by a writer at Heritage.org (well, maybe interesting for some, boring for others, after all it is economics):

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/04/tariff-reform-needed-to-boost-the-us-economy