"We'll export the factories, but keep all the manufacturing expertise here", is not something you'll often hear, from a manufacturing engineer. I once asked a Harvard Business School professor, how such nonsense could have been believed - did no one ask? He replied, I taught that... "the ideas were in the air".

I've wondered, whether the concern for foreign propaganda, targeting US communities disconnected from reality by group-think, is perhaps misguided, in its focus on populists. Sure, sometimes you target propaganda at troops. But the usual and higher-leverage target for deception, is leadership.