In my view, people were offered a very clear choice: Made in China or made in the USA, and they very consistently and unambiguously made their choice at every g

In my view, people were offered a very clear choice: Made in China or made in the USA, and they very consistently and unambiguously made their choice at every given opportunity with their wallets. Probably not the same people, mind you. People are inherently selfish. It's likely that those whose livelihoods depend on manufacturing realize the importance of buying domestic. But for everyone else, it's all about the wallet. Your sentence could be rephrased as: "I can have my inexpensive goods with a 10% markdown. You can go on unemployment." If people were not so selfish in their spending habits the more socially conscientious corporations would be the dominant ones, but clearly that is not the case today.