All good points
I think the days of Free Trade Communism/Globalism are over. You cannot create a job in the United States of America by shipping the American job to Communist China, Drug Cartel Mexico, or Rape Factory India....that is just plain economic fact
Eventually, as Communist China’s birth rate declines, they will have fewer workers. Their cost of labor will increase....to the point of it being too costly to continously ship goods 7000 mi back to the USA. Also, Communist China produes little of quality, and the only way they were competitive is by being cheap.
I can still remember a time when, if you ever stated that “Free Trade with Communist China is good”, you were considered seditious and treasonous. I think the GOP, instead of pandering to Hispanics via Illegal Alien Amnesty...would win back many of the Conservative “Reagan” Democrats in the Rust Belt states by dumping Free Trade and re-instituting Tariffs....tariffs sure worked for our nation before they were replaced by the Income Tax
Shipping manufacturing overseas was a bad economic move, and a bad national security move, as so much of our high tech and war material is now made in Communist China. Of course, you will still have those who support, willy-nilly, shipping everything over to Communist China. Hey, they are just like Sean Penn kissing up to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela
Who needs The Arsenal of Democracy when it conflicts with Free Trade Zealotry?
Yours was a good post.