There's a big push for the return of American manufacturing, that is the re-industrialization of the

United States. This is the opposite of the de-industrialization trend that we've been seeing over the

last few decades, where the manufacturing industry was destroyed in America as the country shifted

to other forms of employment, mainly in the service industry.

And there are a few sides to this, and all of it has to do with the promoting of products

made right here in the United States. Those are the ones that won't get hit with tariffs.

I'm going to be detailing this push for Made in America in today's episode.

I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator

Reporter Joshua Phillip, and this is Crossroads. Two very different agendas are now at odds

over the return of American manufacturing. On one side, there was a trend of what was called

de-industrialization. And the concept refers to the destruction of a nation's manufacturing industry

and trying to shift it to other forms of employment, mainly like the services industry.

Now, the trend in the United States over the last few decades actually saw this.

We de-industrialized.

And a lot of those industries, they didn't go away, they just went to other countries like

China and even to countries like Canada and Mexico because of programs like NAFTA.

America de-industrialized and many other countries industrialized at our expense.

But now a new agenda is being declared, which is re-industrialization,

re-industrialization, not de-industrialization, and the return of American industry could actually change the entire global economic order.

Now look, to be clear, the concept of deindustrialization

was not officially being pushed by any major party. There were some communist groups looking

to do it based on Marxism and the destruction of basically industry. But it was a term also that

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