Trump take manufacturing jobs
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The amount of emphasis that Trump and his allies place on manufacturing jobs as opposed to other jobs — “McDonald’s workers in Denmark are paid more than Honda workers in Alabama” — is largely just nostalgia for a past that often never was as opposed to the basis of a serious economic policy:
In the 1970s, when the Upstate region of South Carolina was known as the textile capital of the world, Adolphus Jones would clock in for grueling summer shifts at one of the many mills in Union, his hometown.
Trains roared around him, transporting materials around the country. Chimney stacks on the red brick mills stretched dozens of feet high, like flag poles. This was textile country, and the cities of Union, Spartanburg and Greenville were at the heart of it.
By the end of the 1990s, automation and cheaper labor overseas took the industry away from the state. Union’s economy cratered, as did most of the region’s. But leaving Sunday church service on a recent afternoon, Mr. Jones, now 71 and retired, scoffed at President Trump’s vision of an American manufacturing revival through tariffs. The mill work had paid little, Mr. Jones recalled, and upward mobility was nonexistent.
“The textile industry is dead,” he said, buttoning his wool suit made in Italy. “Why would you want to bring it back here? Truthfully, why would the younger generation want to work there?”
Most manufacturing work is work that people think it would be nice for other people to do.
But leaving this aside, Trump’s tariffs just fail even on their own terms:
Really bleak outlook in the NY Manufacturing Survey for April:
The 6 month business outlook fell to -7.4 (down 44 points over the past three months). It's the weakest since 2001 and the 2nd lowest in the survey's history.
"Firms expect conditions to worsen in the months ahead,… pic.twitter.com/WV8so1KChT— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) April 15, 2025
Any Democratic politician who feels the need to do a “I like Mister Trump’s idea in theory” routine about incredibly damaging policies he does not actually have the authority to implement is just not ready for prime time.