I agree with your post.
Neither side, has manufacturing anymore.
Both sides have EXPORTED our manufacturing base. What ‘factories’ we have here anymore, are assemply plants for things made elsewhere.
We have been exporting our manufacturing base for so long, nobody even notices anymore.
Not even us. We so very much, need to stop do-dadding and rinky dinking around the problem:
We do no make things anymore.
Republican or Democrat.
Recently bought a compass made in US. A headlamp made in US. Good waterproof 8" duty boots. Quality pair of cold weather neoprene task gloves. I could go on but the point is that it is there. The hard thing is that as EBT mentality grips the country, price, not manufacturing location is the only thing the glassy eyed see.