It is better to blame culture and values. From the cultural left, if you believe that nationalism is immoral and everyone is a global citizen with nation-state

It is better to blame culture and values. From the cultural left, if you believe that nationalism is immoral and everyone is a global citizen with nation-states being obsolete and even illegetimate ideas, you can't expect someone to have a sense of loyalty to his fellow citizens and not outsource. After all, why deny good jobs to the poor in other countries who benefit from them? Isn't it bigoted for a company to want to keep jobs in America? So that's why the left is strangely silent on these trade deficits, and attacks anyone who raises concerns about them as "nativist". On the economic right, if you believe that profit maximizing behavior leads to pareto-maximizing outcomes, why would you interfere with a company that decides to boost profits by outsourcing? It is the cultural right, economic left that remains shaking their heads at what are obviously foolish, self-destructive policies, but they are generally locked out of power in this country, and so the national firesale continues.