Overall, though, I think the horses are out of the barn on “buy American”.
I remember about 15 or 20 years ago, Walmart had a buy American section in the store. I got the impression it didn’t do so well, so it just faded away.
I don’t think you can buy electronics made here if you wanted to now. Probably clothes, too for that matter.
Guns and ammo stocks are still made here, but Ruger is up from 5 in 2009 to 77 right now, so it is not the ideal time to buy that.
The problem is, buying imports now starts to impact our Strategic place in the globe.
We have sent so many manufacturing plants to China, that China is now the largest exporter on the entire planet, and China runs something like a 300 trillion surplus with us now.
And growing. Constant. Every single year. China sells America something like 400 trillion in goods. America sells China something like 100 trillion.
Constantly.
America has completely lost sight of what it means to be in a leadership role.
We need to get back, what we have sent abroad.
Buy American.