2008: run someone pretending to be father left than he was. Win
2012: that guy who won on a left leaning platform ended up governing further right than was promised, proceed to lose thousands of seats to the opposition across the country at all levels of government, setting the stage for this crisis we are now in with rampant right wing gerrymandering and election manipulation.
Or are being repressed by the countless methods Republicans employ to purposely decrease the number of voters.
Reduction in ballot boxes, removal of polling machines in highly populated districts (especially those with high minority populations) forcing hours long lines, reduction in early voting time, removal of access to mail in ballots, egging on their militia/LEO folks to intimidate potential voters, the 30+ fucking bomb threats at polling locations in swing states in 2024
It's not actually an admission of guilt, that was just the defense used for someone who previously rejected a pardon that they were worried it would be viewed as such
Not that surprising, these sleazy characters don't trust each other as they're always looking for a way to betray each other for personal gain, so they assume others are too.
Also not a great idea to trust your legal stuff to companies that might just have it over to those other already characters, especially when you're likely doing illegal shit
Thus killing any attempts to actually bring manufacturing to the US.
Artificially Increasing the price of raw materials does not get people to build things here. This will drive more manufacturing away