I worry about the US taking a back seat or no seat on some of these issues as well. It's a difficult balance because I do think we needed to revise our trade agreements but I'm not sure that it's in our benefit to cut ourselves off from the rest of the world.
Sometimes we have to wait for the impact results of policies to be able to better understand what we did right or wrong.
When I read this article the funny thing that popped into my head was that series "The Man in the High Castle".