> People forget that the US is still the #2 manufacturer in the world

Manufacturer of what, exactly, though?

What do you export? What do you sell?

Food? Nope, illegal in most of the world.

Cars? Nope, uncompetitive in most of the world. "High end" American cars lack even basic features fitted to poverty-spec cars in the EU, like heated windscreens.

Computers? I'm typing this on a computer assembled in Scotland onto a Latvian-made chassis using a Chinese-made motherboard populated with Korean memory chips and an Israeli microprocessor.

What does the US actually make and sell, any more?