Open the gates for immigration.
Work with allies to impose extreme tariffs on China.
Build manufacturing in India, Mexico, Vietnam, and Africa. Own the shipping.
Offer US statehood to Taiwan and keep the South China Sea open to all US Allies. Korea, Japan, Vietnam, etc.
We need to protect our lead in tech and information and attack China's chances of leapfrogging us. Protect our industries, protect democracy. Build up our allies. Build a stronger world.
The risk is that China becomes better than us at everything we do. Then what do we have? Being protectionist is anti-growth. Industry and innovation shut down.
A new cold war is coming. The sooner we get ahead of it, the better prepared we'll be.
The future is knowledge work. Manufacturing domestically is regressive. We need to put the supply chain in the hands of our developing allies.
We shouldn't want to train anyone to do menial jobs anyway. We're about to enter an era where we'll have plenty of creative, knowledge jobs for everyone.
We need to protect and expand knowledge work.
They can also be done without isolationism, but probably not without redistributing the wealth that has concentrated in the hands of the 0.1% over decades (under both parties) back into the general population.
For example, want to bring manufacturing jobs back?
1. Implement trade-protectionist tariffs and import restrictions.
2. Unionize rural workforces to make the pay and work conditions attractive.
3. Offer massive tax incentives to build manufacturing centers in rural states.
4. Reinstitute a manufacturing oriented education system that outputs ready-to-work trained trade employees.
The parties are too far apart now to be able to put in place something like this.