I have owned American cars. They have not been junk for me. OTOH I have owned toyota which was nothing special in my opinion. Certainly not even close to American vehicles I have bought.
it will take a generation. You have to build plants and train millions of people. Construction workers and plant workers will already be in short supply because of deportations.
for one part, we don’t produce natural rubbers, all imported. we can’t even make enough tires. your flat tire will cost you a lot under cheetos.
I could be wrong but I don't think it will take a generation. Plants can be built quite fast and ramped up quickly. Americans can be quite industrious if put to the test.
You understand correctly ..... maybe eventually U.S. jobs might be created. In the meantime prices will rise and U.S. workers, with new/same jobs, will at some point in the future require higher wages to compensate for higher prices and round and round back to where we started. As I said - maybe. The gang that can count straight is in charge so not very likely is more appropriate than maybe.
the problem of this is that you replicate the existing products, not very forward looking, such as ev advancements and robotics.
I own a manufacturing company. Growing the talent will take a long time especially at scale. And with the gutting of the dept education it will be even harder as the training required (trade school educations) are largely funded by Pell grants and to my knowledge with the dept of education gone, I don’t know if there is a plan to continue the program. So, we have a shortage of labor. That labor can’t be trained. It might even take more than a generation to build the manufacturing at scale. Covid proved that America today isn’t the same America that converted car factories into bomber factories overnight. We couldn’t even build a ventilator or stockpile masks when we had 6 months notice on the rest of the world.