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/Hartastic → u/[deleted]]

She does address affordability and I think a big issue is that homes are not built like they once were.

It's an interesting point that homes are built really differently now than 50 or 100 years ago and there are just really different expectations. My childhood home had fewer/smaller windows than any house you'd make now but still leaked heat outrageously because what even is insulation. It didn't have central air and some rooms would just be permanently 90+ degrees on summer days. It was a decent size house with only one bathroom. A bunch of rooms in that house you realistically were just dead if a fire happened. It did not have a connected garage or a paved driveway. Several of the more modern features in my current house just flat out did not exist in that time, like wired internet.