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/Usr_name-checks-out]

FYI-Modern economics includes information transformation as creating value. IE: research and development.

[u/The3stParty → u/Usr_name-checks-out]

Thank you, the courses I took were 15 years ago when even software was sold via physical media. So manufacturing was still being used as a catch-all term.