The invisible hand of the free market, including free trade, (relatively) creates opportunities and jobs that are not obvious. You can’t pinpoint the jobs that result from that freedom.
Meanwhile, a plant moving overseas creates losses that are obvious and immediate. So you pinpoint the very people impacted.
However, you have to believe in freedom to understand that in the long run, it’s going to create far more than it destroys - but creative destruction is part of every successful economy in the history of the world. There is no way around the fact that a belief in protectionism is a belief in some form of centralized planning, while a belief in liberty is the opposite.
I understand all that. I really do.
The problem is the world does not operate that way, except to a point.
America operates one way. China operates another way.
Should be, America operates in a pro-American way. While meanwhile China operates in a pro-China way.
That is not what is currently happening.
Everyone is on China’s side.
Americans. Chinese. Everyone.