American Protectionist Tradition

American protectionist tradition is the episode’s historical frame for why tariffs feel like a return to older U.S. politics rather than a strange break from the past. Vol.113 从几千页智库文件中，勾勒特朗普2.0执政计划背后的人、机构、思想和脉络 links this tradition to Hamilton’s manufacturing report, Henry Carey’s American System, high tariffs, infrastructure building, textile and steel protection, and William McKinley.

The source’s point is not that protectionism is automatically wise. It is that the postwar free-trade order can look like the historical exception from this perspective. Trump-era Trade Reciprocity Protectionism therefore draws on a recognizable American vocabulary: defend industry, use the large domestic market as leverage, attract capital and skilled workers, and treat tariff asymmetry as unfairness.

Key Claims

• The tradition links tariffs to infant-industry protection, manufacturing strength, wages, and national power.
• The McKinley analogy turns high tariffs into one element of a broader package with weak domestic regulation, high-skill migration, gold-standard discipline, and domestic-market leverage.
• The source treats the United States as unusually capable of this package because it has a huge domestic market and strong talent attraction.
• The episode leaves open whether reviving the package would work under current global supply-chain and inflation constraints.

Connections

• Trade Reciprocity Protectionism, Supply Chain Sovereignty, and Peter Navarro — modern policy branch.
• William McKinley, Gold Monetary Anchor, and Merit-Based Immigration Filter — historical-policy bundle.
• Donald Trump and United States — current political and national context.