The dream of greasy overalls is driven by nostalgia and doesn\u2019t justify policies that harm US consumers<\/p>\n
The exhortations to protect America\u2019s industrial muscle have resonated in the US at least since maverick presidential candidate Ross Perot brought up the supposed \u201cgiant sucking sound<\/a>\u201d of jobs pulled to Mexico<\/a> by the Nafta trade agreement back in 1993.<\/p>\n They flourished under Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s first presidency and his promise to restore jobs<\/a> lost to trade agreements. Joe Biden<\/a>, too, put \u201crebuilding the backbone of America: manufacturing, unions and the middle class\u201d at the center of his agenda. And in 2024, Trump reheated his old promise that \u201cjobs and factories will come roaring back into our country\u201d.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The dream of greasy overalls is driven by nostalgia and doesn\u2019t justify policies that harm US consumers The exhortations to protect America\u2019s industrial muscle have resonated in the US at least since maverick presidential candidate Ross Perot brought up the supposed \u201cgiant sucking sound\u201d of jobs pulled to Mexico by the Nafta trade agreement back … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}