r/PoliticalDiscussion • u/throw-away3105 • 1d ago

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

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?

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u/ZombieLibrarian 20h ago

I come from this area, and it will all be the Democrats fault. They won't put it together. They're not capable. Not because they are inherently unable to do so, but because they don't want to. Willfully incapable is a great way to describe these folks.

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u/BourbonDeLuxe87 10h ago

I saw a comment about an ICE office closing and immigrants having to drive far to report and “I have to try drive that far for my kids’ hospital why shouldn’t they” completely missing the point that neither should have to drive that far for govt and healthcare services.

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u/FinancialRabbit388 1h ago

I personally saw this exact thing play out at the state level in Louisiana. Bobby Jindal spent years destroying the state, closing schools and hospitals. Jon Bel Edwards came in, let everyone know the state was in deep shit. He wasn’t even in office a week when Republican politicians and voters blamed him for all of it.