Free traders either do or don’t realize we’re being frog-marched into socialism via the ballot box by the bad results of their policies. You really have to be stupendously insular not to realize what’s going on.
They’re either dishonest or wrong, and the common thread with them seems to be a pathological hatred of nation-states.
They conveniently ignore the fact that the nation-state was a solution to even worse problems like warlords and raiders.
Wouldn’t automation done here would still be preferable to moving factories overseas - so long as the robots are made here, and the implementation is being done by Americans?
Free Traders are very unsophisticated people who are seemingly incapable of complex thought. I think most would sell their mothers into slavery for a buck.