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A lot of people have been talking this and that on tariffs and the need for re-industrialization driving them. I tend to ere on the side of “The United States Government and as such its economy is against me on ethnic and religious grounds, let it die,” but I’m also not an economist. But nobody’s really talked domestically what has to happen for serious re-industrialization.
The best spot for a factory isn’t just anywhere. You need livable space, preferably flat but hilly can work, a source of fresh water for residents and process water, cheap enough energy, easy access to precursor materials and easy access to shipping (rivers, ports, areas you can build railroads and highways, etc). Once one of these spots exists or is made (in the case of Chicago), people build plants, factories, warehouses, logistics companies, and shops, which in turn bring people in from all over to make 6 figures a year at the local mill with the boys. Over time more people arrive, housing gets built and a plant becomes an industrial park at the heart of a city.
Columbus, Cleveland, Detroit, Flint, Deerborne, Chicago, St. Louis, Toledo, and so on all fall into this broad template, albeit some more focused on shipping and raw materials (Chicago) and others on heavy industry itself (Detroit). With the notable exceptions of nuclear, chemicals, mining, and energy, pretty much every major industry likes cities. Cities are great for industry. High local population means comparatively cheap wages or at least pressure for lower wages, public infrastructure means you don’t need to create a company town, centralized power means fewer politicians to bribe, and so on. You CAN put a tire plant out on a river somewhere, but the best engineers and the largest labor pool is going to be available nearby a major metro. Which by the nature of the way humans create metropolises will possess the infrastructure you want.
Cities are a great facet of industrial and technical civilization. Just not in America. Fans of the American Sun will recall the SEMINAL suburbs article, and likely are with it to understand just what I’m getting at here. Simply put, legally, culturally, biologically, and infrastructurally you cannot re-industrialize the USA. The literal best spots have been seeded with blown out cities that participated in guerrilla race wars against the country’s White population for the right to be blown out urban rotted hellscapes. Lets say on paper the analytics make building a Ford plant in Detroit feasible again (ignoring the union issue, that’s a whole other article), you just need people. Now you need to convince literate people with IQs above 90 and fresh out of college engineers to move to the greater Detroit Metro Area to work at your plant to make F-150s domestically. Whose taking that pitch? This is somewhere adjacent to approaching a worker, who has options mind you, with something to the effect of “Hey we’ve got a sick gig with industry rates going on, only problem is you’ll be in South Sudan.” The people that take your offer are going to be unhinged or stupid (people you don’t want operating industrial equipment anyway)!
So to put it short, in order for America to rebuild and re-industrialize, you’ll need a revolution on the same magnitude as the 60s and 70s in the opposite direction. You need safe and livable cities at a bare minimum to support any level of urban industrialism, especially if you’re doing it at scale. I’ll also point out, there is no copout, there aren’t great places to build new cities, and even if there were you’d still need a way to combat the legal instruments that exist to turn your locality into another blighted metro.
So what’s the answer? Its relatively obvious, but I don’t think the administration has the foresight, will, or political capital to do it. Vance 2028? Vance certainly talks the talk, but he’s a fintech guy, I honestly doubt he or his backers/handlers have serious investment in domestic heavy industry beyond defence contracts or they particularly care. So in conclusion I don’t think the tariffs matter a ton beyond doing funny things to the economy, you need a stable sane nation to build or rebuild an industrial base in. Just like Maoism destroyed industrialization in China, the legal civil rights woke regime will destroy it here.
If America gets a Deng Xiaoping, he’ll be racist.