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[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

I think you would need far more than 25% to get to where the average “why don’t we make things anymore” dork dreams about

American manufacturing has been on a consistently upward trajectory and has never been higher. Many things made in America either are highly skilled, highly automated, or both. The hubbub about "bringing manufacturing back" is all just a smokescreen to redirect the anger from Americans who used to have stable, well paying, union factory jobs, who never will have one again.