You can not turn back to the clock to the post WW2 days where no one could compete with the US. Those days are gone. Low skilled work is going to go elsewhere.
Many companies that have the kind of high(er) paying jobs Americans would even want consider more than just wages. They consider infrastructure, tax rates, regulation, union power, etc.
The key is to LOWER taxes, reduce regulation, weaken the power of leftist labor unions, and otherwise make America more attractive to business when they compare setting up shop here versus elsewhere.
All the sudden this forum is filled with Trumpsters defending many of his positions which are decidedly NOT conservative. Trump is a populist protectionist, not an ideological conservative. His blather that all our problems are because of Mexico, China, Japan, etc, is flat out stupid and utterly wrong.
Cut taxes, cut regulation, weaken leftist labor unions (right to work), offer incentives for business to relocate here (or not leave). Those are the ways to make this country more competitive.
I don’t think I mentioned anything about defending Trump. But OK.
How many conservatives have ever praised Unions? Not me, at least. Regulations? I actually think workers get what workers get, it’s up to them to be smart enough to find a legit employer or not (freedom).
Yes. We can turn back the clock. If only by way of policy. The only reason the rest of the world can compete is because of relaxed American Foreign policy.
Sanctions on countries that use slave labor? Sanctions on countries that exploit human rights? Sanctions... If only for the sake of America. That’s not liberal either, it’s American. Nothing wrong with killing your opponents business by way of jockeying for position.