n other words, no populist presidential candidate promising to “make the country great again” is going to turn this around - and it won't be for lack of effort. It's just economics. The jobs aren’t coming back from China and the “made in America” stamp is a relic a bygone era. The American economy is now a bartender and waiter creation machine and it's come at the expense of the still declining manufacturing sector. Bologna. This is nothing but gloBULList Free Traitor™ talk. Forget tariffs, if you embargoed every manufactured good coming in the USA their would be decade of inflation and shortages for durable goods followed by centuries of prosperity.
I agree with you. There IS a path to bringing industry back to America. You'd just need a combination of temporary tariffs, lower domestic taxes, and less domestic regulation.
And one more thing. I believe in the concept of unions. But they've become way too powerful. We need rules to level that playing field again.