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Tag: Reindustrialization

Why the manufacturing comeback is going unreported
The Daily Signal, Approved, Commentary, National

Why the manufacturing comeback is going unreported

By Steve Cortes | Commentary, The Daily Signal U.S. President Donald Trump on Feb. 18, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Beneath the cacophony of media noise, an important untold story emerges: A manufacturing boom is unfolding across America right now, and especially so in the geographic center of the country. This developing boom represents an epochal shift because investments in factories and tangible production involve the stickiest kind of capital expenditures. The commitment to production involves a macro “bet” on a yearslong cycle, not a near-term wager on the latest fad or concerns about the price of gasoline next week. As such, this mostly hidden story deserves to be studied and amplified, both for the economic benefits and also for ...
A Strong America Requires Strong Factories
Commentary, Approved, National, tHE bLAZE

A Strong America Requires Strong Factories

By Riley Moore | Commentary, The Blaze America’s hollowed industrial base is our greatest vulnerability — and China’s greatest advantage. We can fix it. Our country is standing at a crossroads. Neither the world nor America’s place in it is what it was a generation ago. The unipolar moment is over. And yet, many in the Republican Party seek to claim the mantle of America First while continuing the same failed adventurism of the past. National conservatism as a movement agrees that these people and ideas must be stopped. But we have failed to check their influence in the party largely because we have not offered an alternative that both meets the real threats to American security and balances national interest, the deterrent effect, industrial capability, and political will. ...