This new protectionalism has less obvious dangers.
Take a USA made Fender Stratocaster…
Made in Corona California, yes. But partly of foreign parts built using lighting and fixtures from overseas. Built using label printers and boxes from overseas, and on and on.
This endless whining about USA jobs? Our job picture was THE BEST in decades before January. The USA is still considered the leading manufacturer in a lot of sectors and the USA DOES make a lot of stuff. We don’t make cheap stuff usually, but we make shoelaces for Chinese shoes. We have the best shoelaces.
There’s a lot of “quick, look over there” gaming going on here, facts are facts. We had brought back USA manufacturing, and we did it not with jeopardizing USA Dollar being the center of the world, but now? The US Dollar is losing trust. You don’t cut off your hand because you have Dupeyentes Contracture, do you?