Re: The bolded part
Someone should tell the American workers that have taken such a beating that "international trade isn't a competition." I know lots of people from my hometown who have gone knee deep into student loan debt for a 4 year degree, then had to move to a metro area to find a job, and are making less than high school grads used to make at the multiple local manufacturing plants.
Of course, this was before the era of "free trade" incentivized those employers to move production to Asia and Mexico.
The free trade environment is optimized for increasing the wealth of corporations and their stockholders. That has no relation to what is in the best interests of most Americans.