Put protective tariffs back and watch new American manufacturers blossom, staffed by millions of......robots.
It's just like requiring a $15/hour wage at McDonalds, but you can't see it.
The days of millions of American men turning bolts on the washing machine assembly line, or snapping vacuum tubes into that conveyor belt of TV sets, are, simply. over.
And what we have to do is figure out how to sustain living standards in an economy in which those sorts of jobs continue to disappear.
Automation is the future and robotics will become the norm for many actions now performed by unskilled or low skill workers. It is not if, but when.
It makes our intake of poor immigrants all the more foolish......