The big cope with manufacturing is that it got outsourced to China because they have lax regulations. Once people try to bring manufacturing back, the reality sets in: it's hard to make stuff at scale. They weren't just outsourcing manufacturing, they were outsourcing governance.
The fantasy of 'self-regulating markets', deregulation, and privatization is the fantasy of a world without industry. As is the fantasy of government, education, and employment policy that takes competence to be a secondary (at best) concern. Being an industrial power isn't easy.
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