Yes, but also the fact is Americans don’t have any alternative products until industry makes a return, people will still buy the shit until US based competition becomes a thing
There is one way to find out if this works or not, and while building takes a decade, destroying takes a day
It doesn't need to be done before midterms. There's nothing they can do about Trump's tariffs until the presidential election.
It's a new version of the Prosperity Gospel but without the gospel part.
The higher the tariffs are on the country that currently produces the thing, the sloppier you can be in how you set up your domestic manufacturing, as they are starting with an X% handicap. This creates a huge incentive for existing companies to set up domestic manufacturing and for new companies to be created to do same.
Excluding revolution, economic slowdown is the last thing the rulers of the PRC want.
They're doable if the market niche you're trying to get into doesn't have governing regulatory requirements that is just pure overhead and admin costs. Maintaining an ISO certification to sell your grade 8 bolt you made in your garage with your Bridgeport isn't doable. It's not just a "blue state taxes" problem. There's legitimate hurdles out there to keep morons from buying a Mazak and flooding the market with shit components that break and kill someone.
It's going to take a few years to even begin building up that supply chain and the big question is whether the public can stomach the pain until then. Judging by the past two days it doesn't look like it. Lots and lots of boomer Trump supporters screaming "what just happened?"
It depends heavily on the product. Some have way more complicated production chains than others. Some can more easily flex their workforce from one country to another and some can't. For things like clothing, that's going to be an almost instant transition, you could be up and running this very year; only luxury brands will be able to abstain from taking advantage of the arbitrage created by tariffs. For the most industrial products, timelines could be decades. But you know what? That's why you don't fucking ship all shit overseas to begin with. Undoing decades of damage can't be done with a snap of the fingers.
Not the GOP, because the GOP exists as a pressure valve to gracefully lose LEGALLY and eventually capitulate to every Democrat demand. But MAGA, anything to the right of Bush/McCain would 100% be labelled terrorist organizations. They were already ramping up for that kind of thing by labelling """"white supremacy""" the most pressing domestic terror threat, and then began labeling any of their opposition as """"white supremacists"""".
Part of the problem is that it's the same thing with Trump where even if technically there was some kind of violation it's only because of who they are. They're not going after other politicians doing the same or similar things. It's literally going into a dumpster with a magnifying glass trying to find anything you can possibly use against them.
I think this is a generational thing above all, boomer cons will be sucking Reagan's cock until they get to the pearly gates but I think it's becoming a popular position for young conservatives to hate Reagan and blame him for a lot of where we are
This Reagan-worship thing you're referring to is a boomer phenomenon. Not even remotely the sentiment of even a typical Trump supporter, who call that entire generation RINOs and cucks. Have you been in a coma since the 1980s?
Yo, who made China most favored trade status? I'll spoil it
We’re not Conservative
No, that dude is just retarded.
