Nah, he's just being flat-out retarded. Principles imply a level of thought put into why you have them in the first place. He saw the word "free" and thought "good".

Everything he says in this article is insulting to anyone with a functioning brain and shows a lack of understanding from him in even the most basic of economic concepts and reality.

He says stupid bullshit like “The consumer wins when the price is the lowest price, tariffs raise prices and they’re a bad idea for the economy.” The American people have been subject to decades of inferior goods (its an economic term, look it up) as a result of lowered wages and displaced jobs from the loss of industries (most notably manufacturing) and the destruction of the middle class because of past corrupt administrations and politicians. The average American has little money, so we can only buy cheap garbage sold back to us by countries like China who stole our industry in the first place. It wasn't like this in the past. We used to be self-sufficient. Everyone would rather be richer and meaningfully employed as a whole to be able to buy actual quality goods in general than having the cheapest crap shoveled down our throats.

Imagine him saying this bullshit to anyone who lost their jobs as a result of previous administrations selling out our country from under us. My grandfather and all of his co-workers (read: thousands of people) lost their jobs as a result of the EPA being used as a cudgel against the company, which took all the machines, moved them all to China, and laid them all off in waves after several slimy tactics. The only machines that remained here were the ones to stamp "Made in the U.S.A." unto the products.