No, it is reasoned, conservative thought on the subject of manufacturing and trade. I have offered many clear reasons we as a nation are not as competitive as we should be, and plenty of solutions - starting with a reduction of bureaucracy and the administrative state, deeply cutting regulations, policy that curtails union power to include ending all public sector unions to reduce their overall strength and right to work laws to force unions to deliver value to their members, lower corporate taxes, etc. These are all things we can do at home to become more competitive globally WITHOUT imposing additional tariffs which drive up consumer costs or kicking of needless trade wars.
What little substance you offer to back up your "America first" vanities is, whether you realize it or not, union talking points. They, and apparently you, do not want to address the reasons why American manufacturing is not as competitive as it could be, instead you just want to blame someone else (mostly China) and make American consumers pay more so unionized American labor can artificially avoid competing. You do not offer any solutions to tackle the root of the problem. Instead you posit an isolationist view that says American companies shouldn't have to compete because we can just live in a cocoon and buy and sell among ourselves and ignore the rest of the world. Never mind that this policy, even in the near term, would put the US companies at a severe disadvantage as the world is going to globalize and become more interconnected whether you want it to or not.
As I said, I take you as a well meaning, pro-American guy. I just think you haven't really thought this stuff out very thoroughly which leaves you believing that simple nationalistic sounding policy can solve what are much deeper problems which require a lot of national self reflection and changes. It is hard for some to admit the competitiveness problems are largely of our own making. Some would rather blame others - first Japan, then Korea and now China. I know you are a patriotic American and I am glad to have you on my side as a conservative, I just think you are badly misguided on this issue.
Longbow, I assure you that CNN can’t even really read your post much less understand it but good on ya to try to teach the boy.
Watch him come back with more stupid overused whining points. It is after all a standard school yard liberal tactic.
Night all.