[Rockingham]

Talk of political purges and ominous declarations in capitals undermine your case. Moreover, free trade is not the entire problem and in some respects is not the real problem at all.

I recommend that you take a look at the economic literature on the roles of export led industrialization, currency manipulation, and high levels of US taxes and regulations in the decline of US manufacturing. And as a basis for optimism, cheap natural gas due to fracking may radically benefit the cost calculations that underpin US manufacturing while Trump era reforms reduce the regulatory and tax burden.

[central_va]

I recommend that you take a look at the economic literature on the roles of export led industrialization, currency manipulation, and high levels of US taxes and regulations in the decline of US manufacturing.

I have. I suggest you look at the role of global labor arbitrage as the real reason for off shoring. You may learn something.

If I have to choose between sanctimonious Free Traitors&!513 and the Reagan Democrat blue collar workers of America I will choose the legion of Reagan Democrats every time. Really there is no common ground between Free Traitors™ and the protectionist. One has to leave the party. I say the globalist can go pack sand.