>WHY IS POTUS FOCUSED ON BRINGING BACK MANUFACTURING?
Control is one aspect for sure. Try to build anything lately? Screws with heads that come off when you try to use them, nails that bend, building supplies in general way expensive and shoddy quality: however,
Kevin Phillips's book, Wealth and Democracy, examines the rise (and fall in the first three cases) of the last four "super powers," starting with Hapsburg Spain, then the Netherlands, Britain, and finally the US. Each follow the same arc: rise of wealth through MANUFACTURING, manufacturing-based economy morphs into financial-based economy as industry wanes and banks rise, super-power becomes involved in too expensive war. Super power no more. Sound familiar?
A manufacturing-based economy is a strong economy…and maybe we can then get products that work right.