I think the fundamental point here is that neoliberal trade policy is supported by both 'libs' and 'cons', and also that the lib-con distinction is mostly just

I think the fundamental point here is that neoliberal trade policy is supported by both 'libs' and 'cons', and also that the lib-con distinction is mostly just political posturing over issues whose outcomes have relatively little fundamental economic impacts. An analogy for an American lib vs. con political contest might be the members of a homeowners association getting to vote over what color curtains are allowed. Take NAFTA as a case example - even though noted 'con' Trump campaigned in the Rust Belt on opposition to NAFTA and TPP, with the latter heavily supported by 'lib' Obama, once in office NAFTA was merely renamed the USMCA, and the Rust Belt is as far away from a manufacturing renaissance as it was a decade ago, and the TPP is now being flogged by the 'cons' at the National Review, so.