I get really uncomfortable when USA Conservatives attack Free Trade.
Respectfully, I was always a free trader, but we did not have anything close to free trade because of corrupt politicians, outsourcing, insane regulations, and corrupt corporations.
It’s easy to say “free trade” and in principle all of us are for “free” trade, but if we are “free” and they are “foul” it is not “fair” trade.
China (and many other nations) has leveraged us at every turn and our government betrayed us.