re: “Globalization is the redistribution of American wealth to foreign countries.”

Yes. I agree and have posted many vids and my own opinions here, i hope it made a difference to some but the TDS crowd are lost. There's no hope for them. They are basically Dem/Marxist.
Either your for America or you're not. Nobody else, other than Trump, has offered any and i mean zero, alternative to changing this nations direction.
None of this is complicated. Its simple. Return to the principles and ideas that made America great. Everything else, forget it.
We are such a blessed nation to have our Constitution and a blueprint for greatness.
As is human nature, there are those that desire something different while never understanding to depart from the traditional American values equals disaster.
The congressional representation we elect are not looking put for we the people.
You know who is????? The only elected politician who everyone in the nation gets to vote on. President Trump. Hes simply doing what he promised he would do. If you voted for him, stand by your vote and support him. Dont let the Marxist propaganda confuse you, nor any of the TDS infected idiots around here.

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Deciding that we would rather be making t-shirts instead of doing more sophisticated scientific and engineering feats

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Sounds like an absolutely unattainable idea that doesn't make sense at the ground level.

Why is it either or?

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Deciding that we would rather be making t-shirts instead of doing more sophisticated scientific and engineering feats is a bizarre one from some MAGAs.

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Thats such a shortsighted comment. There are many manufacturing jobs that weve lost which pay well and would provide a good income.
Automobiles for one, and if tariffs level out the competition on steel and aluminum, American companies could compete and provide the steel needed forbthe already 1 trillion dollars of investment. The new plants, buildings, construction equipment, building supplies, etc., could be produced and sold from American companies.
Theres soooooooo much more than the t-shirts you mention in your argument.

This is what people arent getting. It isn't one thing, Trumps plan involves tariffs to allow American companies to compete with slave labor cist in ither countries and his tax incentives and deregulation will attract corporations and companies to manufacture/produce their products in America if they want access to Americas market.
Its simple. Too many of your misrepresent the reality

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It's largely a nothingburger for the US.

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No.
But for a country like China, it is a major perspective resetter. Slapping on reciprocal tariffs instead of working through other solutions was dumb.

China is caught between a rock and a hard place. They'd like to devalue the Yuan in response, as they did during Trump's first term. But they are still stuck buying much of their fossil fuel and ag products in USD. Yuan devaluation is a higher hurdle for Xi than it has been. Trump knows it.

China is a-hole. Trump is gloving up.

globalism is a synonym for jealousy of America....

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Are you quoting “globalization” because you don’t believe it is definable?

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More like your type doesn't define it on purpose.

I understand the general concept, but there is always the malleability of these talking point terms so y'all can change your stance (which is why y'all never define these words).

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While also claiming it’s a huge net benefit for our country?

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Well the post-Soviet period is typically the time period referenced, so even without the malleable "globalization", we can still look at the period from the fall of the USSR until today.

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Why is it either or?

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There is only so much money circulating in our economy and only so much it can grow. We're talking about how that money is being distributed.

If we pay more for basic goods, that removes money being spent elsewhere.

The shitty part is that we choose to devolve our economy and redistribute money to lesser economic avenues and less efficient Evonomics avenues, our economic growth stops (and likely recedes). Hence why people ask why people are so obsessed with devolving our economy and SOL to bring back inefficient, shitty jobs that aren't productive in our current economy.

A job at McDonalds is more productive than these jobs. Why are we trying to redistribute our spending/wealth to bring these lesser jobs back and pay them more than these productive McDonalds jobs?

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Taxes for our goods is bad

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Yes

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but us paying taxes for goods is good?

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This is what I'm against. I don't want to copy their bad model (see above)

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Trumps tariffs are a fulcrum on which to leverage more fair trade policies.

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That's one theory.