Too bad the ‘educational system’ has so far dummied down voters that they STILL willingly follow the MSM views on everything!
Free Trade is and always has been a myth, free trade as the politicians define it only exists when both parties play by the same rules, meaning matching tariffs, preferably zero tariffs, whatever one side charges the other side charges.
The US was the lone person playing he low or no tariff game, everyone else was playing the tariff the US game.