I don't think your plan works. US manufacturing is too expensive without extensive automation. And automation won't feed workers.

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.

But you still haven't brought manufacturing jobs back.

They're gone and they're not coming back. We don't want them back. These are repetitive, menial jobs that no human should have to do. The only way we want them back is if they're fully automated.

We need to protect and expand knowledge work.

knowledge work isn't gonna stop midwesterners and coal miners from od'ing on heroin.

and congratulations you've also missed the point of this thread.