Lol the whole point of the US design was to allow the free market internally. Externally it was designed to be protectionist. I agree “free market” today is in

Lol the whole point of the US design was to allow the free market internally. Externally it was designed to be protectionist. I agree “free market” today is insane. Initially the federal governments only source of revenue was tariffs, so it would protect domestic production. This makes the US independent and wealthy. You can’t have an international “free market” system unless you don’t want to protect domestic production. Which imo is what the US did starting in the 70s until today.