Ryan Seitl, left, and Tyler Conen stack aluminum wrenches at the Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry in Manitowoc, Wis., on Oct. 16, 2019. (Lianne Milton for The Washington Post) “Foreign nations will be worried about losing their jobs to America,” former president Donald Trump declared at a rally in Savannah, Ga., last month, promising a “manufacturing renaissance” by walling off U.S. markets with high tariffs and punishing American companies that make stuff overseas.
This sort of statement, based in nostalgia for past economic paradigms in which large numbers of American blue-collar workers manufactured many of the world’s goods, no longer just sounds […]
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