The current debate over tariffs and trade is primarily a policy and economic debate, but we shouldn’t overlook the human cost of the last few decades, when we have offshored so much of our industrial base. We used to be a country that made things, and being involved in production, in creating value, gives people a pride that can’t be had in any other way. And when they lose that, the results are never good.
President Trump gets that. You can agree or disagree with his solutions, but you can’t deny that he’s trying to do right by the people of the United States, the people who put him in office. He’s trying once more to make us a country that makes things because there’s far more than an economic cost in losing that. There’s a human cost.
Watch this:
“They shut right down… and took our jobs and put them over in Mexico… Flint used to be Motor City……
