I've said this for many, many years:

"You can either have $12 flannel shirts at Walmart or have a textile industry in North Carolina. America chose $12 flannel shirts."

We want inexpensive goods today. That is simply impossible with the cost of doing business in the U.S. With the regulations and taxes we place upon businesses here, the cost of producing the goods consumers want is impossible.

The other thing hard for us to understand is that our population is tiny compared to the rest of the world. There are more "middle class" people in India than there are PEOPLE in America.

In my perfect world we would have Free Trade, but in order to sell goods here, an exporting nation would have to comply with the same labor laws, environmental laws, anti trust laws and on and on as we enforce on our own businesses.

Ain't happening.

How much are you willing to pay for a Made in the USA iPhone? How much for a Made in the USA flat panel TV? Americans vote with their wallets and overwhelmingly they favor lower prices, or lack of price increases.

How can the US compete? Lower corporate income taxes, less absurd regulation, and right to work legislation. The southern states have it figured out to some extent, that's where all the new factories are going.

You can say a made in America company for a given product would succeed because you or your friends would buy it, but that is absurd. The market has driven production to China to lower costs. If people actually valued made in the USA over cheaper and made in China we wouldn't be in the situation in the first place. It's not like businesses moved to China on a whim. They were reacting to market forces like everyone else.

Trump was doing most of the right things, but the China tariffs turned big business against him. Big Tech/Media/Banking were already against him, but the China tariffs turned every company that gets anything from China into never Trumpers. I saw it in my own company. Never before had I seen so many reminders from the company to vote. They didn't tell us how to vote, but it was clear they were "getting out the vote" to get rid of Trump.