While I am all for that concept, in practice, it can be difficult. Have you picked up an LL Bean Catalog lately? ...imported...imported...imported.... as you look through the item descriptions. It is much the same elsewhere.
When things can be manufactured in the US again, without the ongoing fear of some arcane paragraph (regulation) in the Federal Register popping up to shut your business down, maybe that will happen.
Between regulations, unions, the moving targets of environmental 'standards', you'd better have really deep pockets to think about manufacturing much of anything here, and if it can be done elsewhere at a profit with little risk, as opposed to the domestic crapshoot, it will be.
Now, the private sector is beginning to get bit by the same sort of governmental attention formerly reserved for industry, simply because there is more private sector left to bite (and bureaucrats have to justify their existence at the public trough somehow), people are beginning to notice what the media has blamed on "greedy rich people" who took a path of less resistance and moved their manufacturing operations to a place where they could operate with considerably less risk.
At the core of the problem, there is too much Government from the Federal Level, and with that I include standards imposed on State Regulators from the Federal Level.
Well said sir, but some people don’t want to face the facts you laid out….