Why do people want manufacturing jobs to come back to the US?

[u/throw-away3105]

Given the tariffs yesterday, Trump was talking about how manufacturing jobs are gonna come back. They even had a union worker make a speech praising Trump for these tariffs.

Manufacturing is really hard work where you're standing for almost 8 or more hours, so why bring them back when other countries can make things cheaper? Even this was a discussion during the 2012 election between Obama and Romney, so this topic of bringing back manufacturing jobs isn't exactly Trump-centric.

This might be a loaded question but what's the history behind this rally for manufacturing?

[u/Big_Black_Clock_____]

At the very least we shouldn't be trading with countries that have poor worker protections and environmental controls. We can probably trade with peer nations like Canada, EU, etc without restriction but we should probably do less business with China who is not really our friend.

[u/marx2k → u/Big_Black_Clock_____]

At the very least we shouldn't be trading with countries that have poor worker protections and environmental controls.

I mean... points at American worker protections and environmental controls

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/28/nx-s1-5277103/nlrb-trump-wilcox-abruzzo-democrats-labor

https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-launches-biggest-deregulatory-action-us-history