the us invented the integrated circuit and was the world leader in production well into the 1990s until neoliberal bill clinton decided that we should outsource everything and become a service economy. pretty much every democrat and republican since then has conformed to the neoliberal view of the new world order where the us orders cheap stuff from impoverished countries. what they didn't account for was that some of these countries would build themselves up while producing goods to sell to the us. it also didn't help that they combined this outsourcing of manufacturing with the importation of cheap labor to replace middle and lower classes workers.  trump is trying to undo this but it will take time and won't be painless. people with tds would rather the us become an impoverished nation itself than see trump improve things.
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