In the meantime however this woman clearly has no idea what she's talking about.
It's not a choice between economics and patriotism. Ignoring economics is like trying to ignore gravity. You can pretend it isn't there, and for the first few thousand feet after you leave the airplane you might be able to convince yourself you were right, but eventually, you will suffer for your ignorance, intentional or otherwise.
Reality cannot be ignored away.
Yet that is the very thing which the phoney free traders do. They disregard how the reality is a construct of governments. Domestic, and especially foreign. The price of labor which is dictating global trade are more or less commanded in Beijing, which exploits its vast communist pool of labor and their free unfettered access to U.S. companies which believe they need to be in China to avoid being undersold by someone else...hence by our government's abdication of its proper role...the Chi-Comm government...with the full panoply of manipulatory tools in its arsenal (sucessfully scofflawing the WTO and its "rules"...giving them mere lip service) ...can divide and conquer.