Vice President JD Vance is clapping along with the MAGA faithful to President Donald Trump's tariffs this week, but in the past he has repeatedly insisted that U.S. manufacturing jobs were not coming back and dismissed efforts to force them to return with tariffs as a futile exercise by "hyper-protectionists," according to a review of his social media posts and interviews over the past several years by CNN's Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck.
Yes, eventually we have to talk about what to do about it, but before we identify solutions, we have to acknowledge the problem.
The one justification anyone has about this removedamamie tariff folly is that manufacturing will come back to America, and states will be flooded with new, high-paying manufacturing jobs. That’s what people believe, based on their knowledge of past manufacturing models, and the administration is letting them think that.
The media has a responsibility to ask about what this administration wants the new era of manufacturing to look like. Does anyone believe that this administration will set up the new manufacturing environment to favor the workers, or will they set it up only to maximize profits for corporations, at the expense of workers’ rights, safety, and compensation? The problem right now is that nobody in the media is even ASKING that question. Until they do, most Americans won’t even consider that the manufacturing model they think is coming, is only in their imaginations.
Before we start throwing out solutions to questions that nobody is asking, lets focus on the right questions first.
acknowledge the problem? it’s like yall just got here.
well, let me know when you catch up.