It's not a coincidence that it was in the 1980s that US car manufacturers started to get seriously hammered by the increasing number of Americans deciding to buy better quality imported cars.
Trump and predecessors of his ilk can call that sort of thing exploitation of the USA as much as they want, but the fact is that if you believe capitalism is a holy doctrine, then consumers should be free to buy whatever they like. If American companies produce expensive, inefficient, poorly designed, badly engineered and generally unreliable crap - as American car manufacturers largely did in the eighties and even earlier - then by the tenets of capitalism they deserve to fail.
Plus when people are all about "buy american, be american" or whatever that campaign was, it probably didn't work that well when their American cars were constantly breaking down and leaving them stranded.
Today's American cars aren't that great either. Allthough, the 80s, and also the late 70s to an extent, were definitely a low point. ( Allthough, late 70s cars weren't nearly as ugly as the 80s was ). The decline, I'd say, coincided with the oil crisis of 1973, and they haven't really ever been able to recover from that after all these years.
IIN That I hate cars from the 80s?
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It's not a coincidence that it was in the 1980s that US car manufacturers started to get seriously hammered by the increasing number of Americans deciding to buy better quality imported cars.
Trump and predecessors of his ilk can call that sort of thing exploitation of the USA as much as they want, but the fact is that if you believe capitalism is a holy doctrine, then consumers should be free to buy whatever they like. If American companies produce expensive, inefficient, poorly designed, badly engineered and generally unreliable crap - as American car manufacturers largely did in the eighties and even earlier - then by the tenets of capitalism they deserve to fail.
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Plus when people are all about "buy american, be american" or whatever that campaign was, it probably didn't work that well when their American cars were constantly breaking down and leaving them stranded.
Today's American cars aren't that great either. Allthough, the 80s, and also the late 70s to an extent, were definitely a low point. ( Allthough, late 70s cars weren't nearly as ugly as the 80s was ). The decline, I'd say, coincided with the oil crisis of 1973, and they haven't really ever been able to recover from that after all these years.