Not even close. With minimum wage laws driving up the cost of unskilled labor and taxation to support those who aren't producing, we can't compete. We are no longer the only industrialized nation as was the case just after WWII. There is now competition. We can't command any price we want because others can easily undercut those prices.
Free trade is reality. Figure out how to compete.
Sure we can... we just need to put the same trade barriers in place as other countries...Korea won’t allow American companies...bye bye Korean cars-not hard. Japan won’t allow competition then we place the same barrier on these countries as they place on our business-not difficult. As for competition. How much will we spend when these policies result in socialism...as they are close to doing so now.