Take a Look at What Paul Ryan Did to His Own Congressional District, and Be Very Scared

[Selatius]

9. And you brought up a good point.

If this nation had adopted early on policies of fair trade where it's not a race to the bottom as far as wages go, neither of us would be arguing about whether or not it would even come back. It wouldn't have left in the first place.

But the genie is out of the bottle, and I generally side with the camp that says US manufacturing is over, but I generally think that if the US government offered subsidies to domestic manufacturing, then what is left of our industrial base could become a springboard on which the rest of manufacturing could be rebuilt. It'll take decades, but that's likely the price of rebuilding the entire Rust Belt.