A CPU factory may (because of high margins), but, for example, a car factory may not. A factory isn't just the labour, it also requires inputs, and tariffs that change weekly means that you can't rely on being able to source the inputs reliably. When your margins are smaller, random input costs can easily sink you.

If you want to bring back manufacturing you need to consider the entire supply chain, and make sure that inputs for whatever factory you are bringing in are secure and will be equal or cheaper in 20 years. These things need to be predictable.

Also, let's not pretend the MAGA movement listens to anything other than the propaganda.

The thought took a shortcut. Profitable wasn't the right word

When you offshore a production facility, it's not about being profitable, it's that it can be more profitable elsewhere.

If you have no guarantee that the tariffs will still be there to artificially maintain your profitability so high, then you don't build.

I think we can agree on the facts there