BS. By transferring our industry and manufacturing to Red China Free Traitors have absolutely ruined this country. Even with high taxes, over regulation, and corrupt unions we had prosperity and those things could have been dealt with. But without plentiful, high paying, wealth creating jobs this country is finished. The people that deliberately did this to us need to be put on trial and punished.
Had they not subcontracted production, sales would have evaporated. The companies would have died.
You don’t understand that the forces you deem as Free Trade are actually competition. If you chose not to compete, you end up not playing.
The American total dominance after WW II was anomaly, not normality.