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Look, I said it above and I'll say it again here, the US doens't have a failed manufacturing sector, it just has a manufacturing sector that excels at different things than China.
China is great for textiles, and cheap electronics or plastics, or questionable pharmacuticals. Things that are labor intensive, have questionable quality control, low profit margins. Things that actually are scalable for a 19th/20th century workforce.
The US has a stellar manufacturing industry for aerospace, heavy machinery, high tech, precision manufactures of all kinds, etc. It's designed primarily around high skill, high pay and lots of robotics useage, with relatively high profit margins.
Could we turn on a dime if we had to start making denim, t-shirts and plastic bric-a-brac? Probably not, but it's certainly not outside of our capabilities as a nation to return to making such things within a certain timeframe. That's just ridiculous.
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