When a country stops making things, it starts losing things—skills, sovereignty, leverage. But when it starts building again, it reclaims all three. Tariffs didn’t cripple the system. They reset it. And now, the results are standing in plain view.
Supply chains are re-routing. Jobs are reshoring. And in the most poetic twist of all, even symbolic global figures are now being stamped with American productivity. That’s not coincidence. That’s course correction. It means the pressure worked. The excuses broke. And the payoff belongs to the producers who never stopped believing the factory mattered more than the algorithm.
This isn’t about protectionism. It’s about rebalancing power. Every nation has the right—and the responsibility—to protect the engine that feeds its middle class. The next step isn’t retreat. It’s acceleration.