One concept that always struck me as bizarre, was "we'll move the manufacturing overseas, but the manufacturing engineering will remain in the US". Years later

One concept that always struck me as bizarre, was "we'll move the manufacturing overseas, but the manufacturing engineering will remain in the US". Years later, I asked a Harvard economics professor about it. He said yes, he'd taught that... "the ideas were in the air" (paraphrase - it's been years). So one problem I have with much analysis of Trump populism, is its failure to recognize that subcultures doing group-think, believe absurdities, and tolerating being lied to, are a broader problem, worthy of more fundamental analysis, and an opportunity for broader remediation.