[Hoot Gibson]

Free trade is not a conservative principle. Certain brands of conservative intellectuals with pronounced free market or libertarian leanings have pushed free trade. People such as Past Buchanan- for example, have never been free traders. Back in the fifties and sixties conservatives rarely, if ever mentioned free trade.
Free trade is a cancer- it is economic treason. I have been a life-long Republican, but I would never support a free market-free trade Republican, they are as evil and worthless as liberals.
Prominent amongst this sorry no good worthless lot are Hoot Gibson's pet dog Ted Cruz and his garbage buddies Bush and Rubio. Flush the lot of them down a toilet and this country will be better off.

Apparently, American History was not one of your better classes. Economic freedom is inseparable from personal liberty and both have been key parts of what was known as the American dream.

I think that people like you, who mistakenly believe that Donald Trump is a conservative, confuse free trade and economic freedom with trade agreements. They are not the same. One can be a strong supporter of free trade and opposed to trade agreements that weaken this country's position.

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are both anti-free trade, as is Donald Trump. Trump is a crony capitalist, who admits to buying political favors for his companies through campaign donations (mostly to liberal politicians). Trump has prospered in large part, not through any creative genius or hard work, but through programs like H1B visas and getting his products manufactured overseas. What do you think he got in return for all the money that he donated to politicians all these years?

I encourage you to learn more about economics before you accept Donald Trump and Pat Buchanan as your economic gurus. Watching a few Milton Friedman videos on Youtube on economic freedom would be a great start. I also encourage you to consider the alternative to economic freedom.

The leaders of Venezuela probably agree with your hatred of the free market. The people of Venezuela would probably welcome economic freedom and a roll or two of toilet paper with open arms.