President Trump Stands Up for American Manufacturing
Manufacturing jobs, long thought to be on permanent ebb in the U.S., are coming back. Donald Trump is to blame.
President Donald J. Trump arrives on stage to address employees at the Army Tank Plant Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima, Ohio. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
Donald Trump gets plenty of blame in the press: Rarely does he get any credit.
There are those among his critics who believe that any good President Trump may do for the American people is overshadowed by his conduct, which they argue is unpresidential at best.
They may be right. U.S. voters will no doubt weigh-in on this question come November.
There are others among Donald Trump’s most out-spoken critics who argue that no, in fact, Donald Trump has never done anything good as President.
They are wrong.
As former President Barack Obama recently chastised the young and “woke”, in real life there is more than a fair amount of ambiguity.
Great things, Obama declared, have been achieved throughout history by highly imperfect people, many of whom one would not wish to have for a houseguest.
Seeing the world as black and white- Donald Trump evil, Democrats good or visa versa- is a misleading vantage point on the best of days.
It is with this ambiguity in mind that progressive liberals should take a long, hard look at the manufacturing gains that have much benefitted working class people Democrats still claim to represent.
Democrats have long claimed to represent the working class even as the balance has shifted over the past decade so that Democrats now control 27 of the wealthiest 30 districts in America.
Democrats now share the poorest 30 equally with Republicans.
Paying attention to these manufacturing gains might help Democrats wishing to be elected President in Trump’s stead in 2020 understand better how to communicate with, and better still, help, those in the Rust Belt states who feel left-behind by the Democratic Party.
These states were neglected by Democrats in 2016, to great cost. They are being neglected again as Democrats turn a blind eye to small towns returning to life and small businesses downtown and on Main Street hiring again.
The message Democrats should be sending these voters isn’t that Donald Trump is evil incarnate, a Russian asset, a murdering rapist or anything of the sort.
Democrats should be telling American manufacturing workers that anything Donald Trump can do, they can do better.
President Donald J. Trump is cheered by employees at the Army Tank Plant Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima, Ohio. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
Apple Computer towers are seen on the assembly line at the Apple Manufacturing Plant Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, at Flextronics International LTD-Austin Product Introduction Center, where the Apple Mac Pro desktop is assembled. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
Currently, Democrats are having a difficult time ignoring the return of American manufacturing. This situation is likely to get worse.
For the first time in recent memory, if ever, Apple products are going to be made in the U.S.A. In Texas, to be exact.
If this weren’t news enough, the luxury handbag label Louis Vuitton has also opened a new factory in Texas and will be made in the U.S.A.
As far back as most people buying the expensive bags can remember, these items have been made in a Slavic or East Asian country, where labor is far cheaper and the regulatory environment more friendly to businesses.
President Trump Stands Up for American Manufacturing