What many free marketeers have yet to learn is that they are really engaged in a perpetual campaign. The only way to achieve success is to continually win the most of the ideological battles and skirmishes. Any let up will see anti-market ideology swiftly regain lost ground. One only has to look at the success, for example, of 'Liberals' like Moore, Hill and Gallus in resisting further tariff cuts to see the truth of this fact. The first lesson that needs to be learnt by free marketeers is that they should direct most of their resources to directly swaying public opinion.
Politicians are generally, by instinct, followers of what they perceive as public opinion.
This is a fact that anti-free traders never lose sight of. It is a pity that most of our free marketeers have yet to fully grasp it.