Much has been written about tariffs and what Trump hopes to achieve with them. One of the things oft discussed is bringing manufacturing back. A tiny bit of research suggests that this will in no way happen for anything sophisticated on any medium-term timescale.
This article was a nice and simple overview of why, including from some perspectives you don't often hear:
Chinese workers work longer hours more happily and they’re physically faster with their hands; they can do things that American labor can’t. It’s years of accumulated skill, but it’s also a culture that is oriented around hard work and education that the United States no longer has.
Sadly, what I describe above are not theoretical situations. These are things that I have experienced or seen with my own eyes. It’s fixable, but the American workforce needs great improvement in order to compete with the world’s, even with tariffs.
The story could be different in twenty years, of course. Anything could happen in two decades. But the idea that we'll gut through a couple hard years and suddenly have an industrial base again, or even the seedlings of one, strikes me as bonkers.
So bonkers that even Trump, for all his many and obvious limitations, must understand it. And is doing all this anyway. Which is also a good thing to understand.
JUST DO IT.