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We already have very low unemployment. A low birth rate. Structural labor shortage. There is no pool of millions of workers to make a large-scale manufacturing renaissance happen unless we have more immigration. And Trump is poised to deport 10-15 million people, most of them workers.

Creating an acute labor shortage in ag, food processing, construction, manufacturing, hospitality.

Using tariffs to revitalize American manufacturing is a good idea, but it has to be done carefully and intelligently, targeted tariffs, not tariffs on everything, and coordinated with labor supply and industrial ability to build up manufacturing, not just throwing mud at the wall and shit at the fan like Trump.

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