I've been asking that question since the Chinese first began dumping billions of dollars in cheap crap into our domestic markets.
The lure of cheap goods and labor is a trap, which eventually robs a nation of its productive capacity, its wealth, and its sovereignty.
This thread full of economically ignorant big government populists....”We love liberal policies until we don’t”. I thought the line here was “Let’s just get government out of the way”. More central planning than Adam Smith here. This won’t bring back steel. Not in any meaningful way. Dismantle the unions by targeted regulation changes and get the stranglehold off of raw materials production. Let’s show the world what we can do once again. This was a bad move by Trump. Oh and blue collar Democrats are a fickle bunch, liberals are liberals. Even Churchill lost an election right after WWII.