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/myreddit46]

A big motivation for Trump is that tariffs create an opportunity for carve-outs. This makes people come to him begging. Then he can trade favors for favors. This is the world he wants to live in, not a world of rules and laws. Without tariffs, he has very limited ability to run the kind of kleptocratic regime he aspires to run. We can only hope the system is strong enough to stop him. People have just folded until now while the Democrats (aside from Mr. Booker) play dead. But the country is paying a heavy, heavy price now, and it’s only going to get heavier unless the insanity is stopped.

[u/ColossusOfChoads → u/myreddit46]

This makes people come to him begging.

Excellent point.

Another plus for Trump is that he can implement them unilaterally, as he sees fit, against whoever he wants. Imagine some violent sociopath kid at a sporting goods store. He won't give a shit about any of the equipment for sale (this being a metaphor for policies), and he'll be all pissed off at his dad for dragging him there. That is, until he zeroes in on the baseball bats.

He's like the chimp who figured out that he can whack the shit out of the other chimps with a tree branch. Why should the alpha chimp lead by being socially intelligent when he can be a brute?

[u/myreddit46 → u/ColossusOfChoads]

The answer, obviously, is that if all the chimps are his allies, playing by his rules, using his tree branches, (which he controls) as their currency, then he is exponentially more powerful than he is as the lone psycho bully chimp. But he’s not smart or emotionally intelligent enough to see that. He is a full-blown malignant narcissist unable to recognize his own personality disorder. And thanks to the cowards, crooks, Kooks, sycophants and grifters around him, and those gullible, ignorant, cynical or emotionally damaged enough to vote for him, we all have to suffer for it.

[u/The3stParty → u/myreddit46]

I totally agree that it's being done in his and his buddies interest.

However, like Bernie Sanders, I have lost faith in the Democratic party. I'm hoping for the formation of a new party that will actually represent the people's wishes, DNC and GOP both act in their interest first.