Foreign Producers eg GM,
hate you,
hate your liberty,
hate Christianity,
actively finance military invasion of your town.
But they always get a pass eg WW2, WW1.
Subjects are stupid, I guess.
USA could make ALL their own products AND export some.
Always was that way. It made citizens rich.
Isolationist claptrap will destroy the nation
From the bottom of a rut, the real world can’t be seen
It’s a mindset problem as much as an economic problem.
International trade per se is not a fundamentally evil thing. But if it is not balanced over time, then the party that produced more goods to participate in the trade will end up accumulating debt notes on the other party. This isn’t good.