Rationally speaking: Free trade IS the proper goal. All nations on earth SHOULD be free countries, where individual rights are paramount and economic liberty is the norm.
But free trade presupposes that FREE people are doing the trading. The people of China (and most other nations) are not free. The government controls everything they do, and considers all wealth public, not private (meaning: all wealth as belonging to the government.) That’s what Communism means (fascism, too): Everything is owned by the government, and people only act or trade with permission.
RINOs, faux conservatives (Paul Ryan, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, etc.) and Trump-deranged “libertarians” who say they want free trade might believe what they’re saying. But they’re wrong if they think free trade can be achieved without any freedom. By taking their support over to Democrats, who are now radically and openly fascist and Communist, these RINOs and self-described libertarians are delivering America into the unbridled and irredeemable evil of a totalitarian state. All for what? To defeat Trump. Yes, they hate Trump that much, even though his policies are simply what Republicans always promoted, but never meant.
I detest these faux right wingers MORE than the leftist, psychopathic totalitarians themselves. They are the enablers of our destruction, and I hold them MORE accountable than anyone for all the bad that’s happening, or will happen.