Anyone still perplexed by the rise of Donald Trump need only take a 50 minute drive from here to the town of Gramercy, where the 444 men and women who work at Noranda’s alumina refinery are at risk of losing their jobs because China is cheating the rules of global trade.

Since opening in 2004, this refinery has helped feed the exponential growth in demand for the aluminum used to build pickup trucks, fighter jets, and body armor for our troops.

Today, American industry’s appetite for aluminum is higher than it has ever been. And yet, these workers are facing devastating layoffs because the Chinese government is illegally subsidizing aluminum production…