No way to put “Free Trade” back in the bottle, Mariner.
Business owners and consumers from almost every country in the world can compare prices and product quality in milliseconds.
And, the pay scale for low and medium skill labor, in EVERY country, has peaked, and will stagnate or decline for decades into the future.
Trump and the “new” Conservatives are fighting the last economic war.
The next war will be “our” robots and business/engineering software against “their” robots and business/engineering software.
I work for, with and among the most advanced Tech companies in the world.
What I see is even core technology research being distributed throughout the world and even to adversarial nations.
And ALL of the manufacturing is "over there". Half of all workers are H-1B or past H-1B with a green card.
Anyone who supports that is undermining the core, strategic security interests of the United States.
Currency manipulation makes your argument moot. Indeed, and what of price dumping and foreign tariffs?