This is happening because Trump and his supporters want to get the US back to the 50's when the country was a huge exporter. The problem is the 50's were an ab

This is happening because Trump and his supporters want to get the US back to the 50's when the country was a huge exporter. The problem is the 50's were an aberration. That's because all the other major industrial powers had been devastated or at least impoverished by WWII. But they rebuilt, and new industrial powers like China arose, and so we got back to the normal state of affairs of lots of competition.