What needs explaining? Apparently, you have no trouble with our government picking winners and losers as a matter of policy.
No, I don't have a problem with a trade policy that picks American producers to be the winners over foreign socialist producers. You do?
Yelling "commie" is what the free trader always does when the facts have argued him into a corner.
Tell me how Hamilton, Lincoln, McKinley, Taft, Coolidge, and Hoover were commies.