It was the democrats and GOP which wanted cheap goods to offset higher taxes....
you gotta figure that all those big factories in communist China were installed to make some rich people much richer
and since the markets for the products are here, no doubt Nixon’s “opening” to communist China has enabled a good number of American and other investors to share in those profits
and those folks buy up most of the political hacks, starting with the GOP-e (but not limited to just them)
Are imported goods really that “cheap” in a larger context?