As with many things, Shakespeare already put it well:
"Tis better playing with a lion's whelp, than with an old one, dying" (Antony and Cleopatra, about Mark Antony starting to lose it as his power slips, for context)
I don't know - that assumes there is value in manufacturing things. The main role of the American citizen today is to buy stuff. I think if people want to push back a popular movement to stop buying things would be one of the most effective things that could be done. No violence, just not shopping.
I said on here one time that we would see laws compelling buying stuff in the next five years. I don't mean stuff you have to buy to live and would anyway. I mean consumer goods and services. Some sort of state-funded Netflix subscriptions for example. How about this - some sort of UBI / Digital benefits system. It can be spent as money, is denominated in dollars, but there are restrictions on how it can be spent. If you don't spend it, it vanishes / is returned to the government. With digital currency you can do such things. Your entertainment portion of the UBI / welfare has a list of options. Netflix is one. This UBI / welfare is paid for by taxes (corporate and personal). Bang - state subsidised Netflix that you pretty much have to buy (or an alternate provider) because otherwise the money goes poof as you evidently don't need it and perhaps that may even trigger an assessment procedure to check if you really need the welfare (this is the stick to keep you spending).
A big money churning machine of controlled consumption with an angry army of voters and rioters at the ready should anyone try to take their goodies away from each other.
