So today I got into a discussion with my coworker around mfg jobs. She is very passionate about it. She believes the US should bring them back and thinks or at least wants Trump to do it. I'm not sure if she's a Trump supporter, but she sounds like one. Anyways I was telling her that economically its not viable for most company, especially those that manufacture high margin products/goods to bring manufacturing back to the US. I also told her the ones that did come back were automated away because it was cheaper than China, but she thinks Trump can do it. Whether it be through tariffs/taxes, stern harsh mean words, or punishing companies that produce outside the US, it will be done. Also because China is corrupt and steals from us and manipulates its currency and world commodities, we should simply cut them off because that's the right and moral thing to do.
At the end I couldn't convince her to at least look at it objectively from an economic standpoint. She blindly believes it must be done even if it hurts US interest. I did remind her that China has a population of about 1.4 billion and a growing middle class that is marching towards consumerism that most US companies would love to tap into, but she was like NO, we need to cut the head off.
So I gave up.