Comment by lurking15
It's funny how (supposedly liberal) opponents of Trump will strategically whine about economic theory when generally otherwise if you were to make appeals on the basis of economics you're labelled heartless, etc.
You know what? I like when jobs are based in America because people need domestic careers that can sustain communities. There are non-monetary costs to outsourcing that are not mere quantities for an economist to decide for us.
Ross Perot was wildly successful running on a platform like this, at least relative to any other third party in American politics, and as soon as he appeared to be a threat to the establishment, strange stuff started happening to him much like the assassination attempts in this election.
Heartless? In my view it is inappropriate for the government to prohibit or tax peaceful, voluntary activity such as trade.
The US grew economically due to the interstate commerce clause prohibiting states from imposing tariffs on each other, and now we are supposed to believe that Trump and Perot are economic geniuses because they want to subsidize coal extraction and tax EVs so that Americans have to pay double?
Most of the big wars started because countries got protectionist and isolated and had no economic reason not to fight each other.