Ghoulish economic threat? You mean the very real bubble the world is sitting on? That's what happens when you bailout companies and then don't do anything to the structure of the company or limit what if can do. I study Economics, the free market isn't this wondrous thing that fixes every thing. The free market is often wrong in the allocation of merit goods such as healthcare for instance.

The free market inevitably goes to wherever Labour is the cheapest and the cost of production is lower. In the short run, the effect won't be felt by too many people, a few jobs here and there. Bug on the long run, whole factories will close down and more and more people will lose their jobs.

To quote someone who lived in Nazi Germany "I made a pact with the devil to get a job. Hitler came along and got me a job. So I followed him."

People care about their jobs and inevitably when Obama outsourced 86,000 jobs during his last year in office, people are going to blame him and the democrats as a whole. I might add the total amount of votes in the Rust belt, the area most effected by Neoliberal trade agreements, the total amount of votes that swayed them to Trump was around 70,000 across the three states that flipped.

It's incredible, I had a more fun time on r/Libertarian.