Trump wants to fund industries on the decline, it's a losing strategy.
Well, at least you are talking about a reasonable concern now. And I appreciate that. But is that true? If you put up a 10% or 15% trade tariff on all imports, does that not gut the advantage of cheap labour for mass manufactured goods such as LEDs and CPUs and Consumer electronics, Solar panels, Wind turbines, etc etc etc?
Devildetails, the devil of these details are what you assemble natioanlist economists to plan out and strategize over, not one thing to point to and say "That won't work".
Can't you grasp the MONUMENTAL shift that even discussing tariffs represents in today's US insider game? The Global elite have TRILLIONS that would then have to go back into the production of US manufacturing in order to stay competitive. But would this be something we would apply in the import of base resources like lithium or cotton textiles? Those details need to be worked out and numbers crunched. But the over all value of tariffs is in keeping a virtuous cycle of money flowing mostly within the US economy and that is what needs to be fought for. This is a sea change and I hope you grasp that. BTW--Jeremy Corbyn proposed this as well last week with his finance minister, MacDonald.
solyndra we also get Tesla.
Solyndra did not fail because the business model was bad. It failed because of Chinese DUMPING. Now you are sounding like a Republican. Not good.
Wasting your energy on the cat fight over "who said what" and "did they really mean it?", when the issues that are so tragically overlooked sit their on the table and I name them for you, is what we should call "Myopic".
EDIT: OH! And if you want to control greenhouse gasses/Carbon Pollution as I do then you must be able to control the industry that produces that CO2. Thus, bringing industry back to the USA where it can be regulated is the first step forward.