Theoria is right. There were quite a few rich constituents pushing Nixon to get the most favored nation trade status ball rolling. They were the first, and bipartisan groups pushed every president thereafter to do the same. Many of them were bosses of manufacturing on U.S. soil back then—some of them even former, high ranking, U.S. Navy officers (very sorry to say), who wanted to move manufacturing to the countries they remembered more fondly from past parties and whoring.
I was there. They went to work drunk and chased other men’s wives in the offices. They threw temper tantrums over nothing more than vanities (muscles showing on young machinists and machine operators). They were the commies from spoiled, socialist, globe-trotting families, unlike the many young Army and Marine veterans who worked for them.
Now we see the bipartisan, socialist trash in leadership descended from those families and having linked all business in improper ways with government. We need a whole lot of getting back to a moral, loyal America.
Sad to say but I am afraid it won’t happen without some catastrophic event (economic collapse with class in fighting or an all our armed revolution).