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He knows and by making EU products expensive he is forcing the consumers to buy US products or save their money. Protectionism isn’t new to the US, that’s how it built up its industrial base in the 19th century. Now how this will truly play out is to be seen.
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I have been told that Wisconsin makes good cheese. Not sure why people are upset.
It would work if the US made stuff. We don’t.
They’re simply isn’t a manufacturing base. It was disassembled and sent overseas over two decades ago.