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==Trade deficit==
==Trade deficit==
[[File:2018 trade deficit.jpg|thumb|500px|right|U.S. trade deficit with China. The difference between the red line and blue line represents an outflow of American wealth - [[capitalism|capital]] that could be used to create American jobs rather than jobs in China and prosperity for the [[Chinese Communist Party]].]]
Contrary to Cold War era idea that free trade would encourage tyrannical regimes to become democratic - an argument used to sell globalization - experience now has proven only serves to strengthen non-democratic [[human rights]] violators. China and Iran are two of the most shining examples. The widespread notion that [[democracy]] and free trade go hand-in-hand has been discredited.
Contrary to Cold War era idea that free trade would encourage tyrannical regimes to become democratic - an argument used to sell globalization - experience now has proven only serves to strengthen non-democratic [[human rights]] violators. China and Iran are two of the most shining examples. The widespread notion that [[democracy]] and free trade go hand-in-hand has been discredited.
Donald Trump has been a lone voice of [[realism]] against globalists, who initially pitched the democratizing influence of free trade, and now are content with the status quo of their failure and the impoverishment of [[Western]] nations.
Donald Trump has been a lone voice of [[realism]] against globalists, who initially pitched the democratizing influence of free trade, and now are content with the status quo of their failure and the impoverishment of [[Western]] nations.