“What I disagree with in your post is the concept of protecting manufacturing capacity. This is not a legitimate security threat. It is a poor excuse for implementing protectionist actions as it hurts America and it’s consumers.”
Honestly, you don’t care about American consumers.
To be a consumer requires you to have a decent job. Free Trade destroys the Middle Class and Blue Collar workers.
All you care about is your own wallet.
It is easy for those uneducated in economics to weigh the needs of a visible victim over the needs of a statistical unseen future victim. Who will be harmed in the future due to increased economic stagnation if consumers don’t have more money to spend, which triggers the start of new businesses?