

It is important to know that US manufacturing never ‘went away’ it just changed.
Productivity and automation have taken more jobs than them moving overseas.
US manufacturing output for the last 100 years.
https://www.macrotrends.net/2583/industrial-production-historical-chart
I will not disagree, “just changed” is doing some heavy lifting.
My only point with the graph was to show manufacturing in the US is near an all time high.