And since you wish to hit below the belt, I have no issue with “fellow Americans” as you call it. My issue is with an over reaching Federal beuracracy that stands in the way of economic liberty. If I wish to buy a widget made in Zimbabwe because my widget is regulated to death here and is 50% of my cost because of said regulation before an American worker has even touched the material to make it then hell yes I’ll do my business with Zimbabwe to compete on the global market!! That doesn’t make me a loser, that make me an anti Government capitalist.
Yeah and while you are dry humping Zimbabweans we income tax paying fools back here in the USA are stuck paying the bills for the vast ocean of under employed Americans. Buy from wherever just pay the duty and shut up pal.
That's the thing. American businesses can't compete with the "global market" because the global market includes places like Zimbabwe where they get paid pennies. The result is that the manufacturing/industrial base of the United States is slowly but surely exported overseas.
Specific harmful regulations notwithstanding, there's no positive end game with unrestricted free trade. A real "trade" policy should be strategic and actually designed to benefit American businesses. That means placing taxes on things that hurt us and lowering regulations/tariffs on things that help us.