A whopping 75 percent of House Republicans voted in favor of shipping American jobs to China in 2000. Democrats, wary of the myriad economic, environmental and labor repercussions of normalizing trade with China, rebuked a “centrist” president and voted against the measure by a two-to-three margin. A year later, George W. Bush formalized Congress’s vote, granting preferential trade status to China. Republicans, in short, enabled Beijing’s astounding economic and military rise by swapping millions of good-paying American jobs for cheap Chinese imports.