Although free trade is a useful concept and I have no argument in regard that it is as a principle of economics that protectionism tends to hurt more than it helps in an ideal world where other nations are open to free trade....it is not a comprehensive enough principle to adequately deal with the realities of negotiated trades between nations that play dirty with trade....and not even necessarily to the benefit of their own citizens.
Gravity is a useful concept. And yet airplanes and baloons may defy it...because there is more going on.
So all those people that have been laid off over the decades when a factory closes due to offshoring is an illusion?
If this website is going to continue to be taken seriously then the Free Traitors™ have to be fought on every thread, all the time.