'We Want To Make Tanks, Not T-Shirts': Donald Trump On Tariffs, Textile Manufacturing

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17. In MAGA World, any manufacturing is better for men than getting soft in feminized 'email jobs' -

From The Week 5/2/25, p.17 -

Tariffs: The quest to bring back 'manly' jobs -- per Emily Steward writing in Business Insider -

MAGA world thinks that Trump's levies on cheap imports will drive a renaissance in American manufacturing and bring back a time when men toiled with their hands in factories or mines instead of getting soft in feminized "email jobs."

The concept of testosterone-boosting jobs drew recent cheers from Fox News host Jesse Watters: "When you sit behind a screen all day, it makes you a woman.," he said.

The prospect of a factory boom excites internet "incels" who can't find a wife or girlfriend, said Constance Grady in Vox. They believe it will shift the economy back to 1950's style manly employment while shifting away from work that has enabled women to become independent. If women once again need economic support from men, these lonely dudes think they "will be incentivized to sleep with them, and the world will be restored to its proper order."

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The OP reminded me of this, although the OP is about Trump preferring some "real man" (TBH my characterization of what's in his mind) types of manufacturing over less manly types of manufacturing -- like textiles and sneakers -- while the blurb above from Business Insider / The Week is about manufacturing vs. non-manufacturing feminized "email jobs".