Even in its heyday in the 1950s, manufacturing was less than 30% of the total U.S. economy and a bit over 30% of employment. Over the next half-century, its share declined considerably. Still, the level of output continued to grow and the U.S. remains the world’s third-largest manufacturing entity (behind only China and the European Union).
Russia almost produces the same amount of steel as the U.S. with 1/3 the population. China produces 8 times the steel that the U.S. does. With our anemic industrial output how are we supposed to compete I the building of munitions? A nation with a services-based economy ruled by raging marxist perverts is not a superpower.