Opinon of Adlai Stevenson

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Better than the Dulles brothers, and the anti-intellectual attacks on him set the stage for ideas like "ketchup is a vegetable", "global warming is a hoax", "protectionism is good", etc.

"Protectionism is good" had been around for centuries before either Adlai Stevenson stepped out onto the national stage. 

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Better than the Dulles brothers, and the anti-intellectual attacks on him set the stage for ideas like "ketchup is a vegetable", "global warming is a hoax", "protectionism is good", etc.

"Protectionism is good" had been around for centuries before either Adlai Stevenson stepped out onto the national stage. 

What I meant is that it was discredited by WWII and was confined to the anti-intellectual extremes of both parties until 2016.

The US did not ditch protectionism simply because of muh Second World War, and protectionist policies to varying degrees have been applied by numerous presidents from both parties. Each step towards free trade in the 20th century was a step away from and against a protectionist past--one that we were still mired in to some extent even into the 1970's.