Most people aren’t free trade absolutists — they want a mixture of free trade and national security. One example is US ITAR restrictions, which prevent certain

Most people aren’t free trade absolutists — they want a mixture of free trade and national security. One example is US ITAR restrictions, which prevent certain technologies being exported. Another is looking to protect local food supplies against foreign competition — eg, dairy co-ops from foreign mega farms. There’s lots of empirical evidence that a mixed system is more stable with little to no loss to innovation. Most recently, COVID demonstrated the problem with foreign supply chains.