The problem is that it's hurting the USA economy, too.

In economics: if somebody is doing it cheaper then you can, especially if they are willing to lose money doing it (which is what subsidies accomplish), then you let them. You focus on what will make you money.

Which means for the national economy I have zero doubt that Trump's actions will save and/or create a 10-30 thousand jobs. The problem is that he will be sacrificing many more thousands of jobs and hurting the standard of living for most of the 300 million people living in the USA to do it.

Not to mention that USA debt from Trump/Congress's spending needs to be bought by somebody. The people that been doing that are the Chinese. So if he does manage to collapse their economy it's only shooting the Federal Government, and ultimately, the USA Dollar in the foot.

So much grandstanding. So little sense.

Comments critical of Trump are getting downvoted and the users throttled. Not sure what is going on.

I think its a combination of a few things. First I think there are automod policies that use keywords in these conroversial topics to throttle. Second I think an ugly truth people don't want to admit is tech is heavily slanted to his supporters and those who find his values appealing due to the gender, class and age weighting in the industry, and nationality on this site being predominately American. Third there is a concentrated effort in every relatively neutral forum to downvote/argue/oppose, some of which is organic and some active measures. You often see an initial and rapid hit and downvoting of comments critical of him or the country in general, but then as the other hemisphere wakes up it balances out.