Though legacy media prefers to fixate on looming questions of affordability, one of the most neglected stories of the year has been just how much industry President Trump and his team have commandeered back into the United States. Whether through the wide-ranging tariffs on goods coming from countries as varied as China, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and the European Union, or by way of simply cutting deals with individual companies, like the $150 billion the President recently got IBM to commit in quantum computing and manufacturing over the next half-decade, the flurry of deals – both reported and sometimes not – unleashed over these last eleven odd months has positioned the United States to once again be the dominant industrial power on the planet.