Interesting. I've never heard this "America doing the world a favor" version of free trade. The story usually told is "big corporations using political levers to open markets and make lots of money by taking advantage of weak governments". Many of those corporations are American.<p>But of course, what's good for American corporations, and the people who run them, may not be what's good for America as a whole, or specificaly the workers.
In some possible world, a US president Trump and congress should impose a 50% tariff on imported goods, services and intellectual property, in steps, over a five year period.<p>BOOM.