Increasingly, this country seems bent on opting out. Good, some of you might say.
All trade does is steal American jobs.
Let me remind you of what happened in China 2,000 years ago. China was the trade and technological leader of the world. Fearful of foreign influence, the then-emperor cut his country off from the world. Deprived of trade, its economy started the long slide toward poverty. There's nothing complicated about growing trade.