While I sympathize with Ford, GM, and Stellantis workers, it stops there. All three of those companies ignored the future and did as little as possible to prepare for it.

Their idea of "innovation" lay in building ever larger, oversized vehicles for which they could charge premium prices, and then marketing them to the American public. "You need a truck capable of climbing--and hauling--Mt Everest!"

But much, much worse is the fact that over the past few decades each of them have spent billions of dollars in useless stock buybacks.

That money could have gone into R&D. That money could have been spent buying new equipment and upgrading factories and training workers.

That money could have been spent in some attempt at remaining competitive.

Instead, they blew it on vain attempts to artificially prop up their declining stock prices and return "value" to their stockholders.

But now their sales are declining, they're forced out of more and more international markets, they're running scared, and demanding tariffs that help them all while preventing the American public from buying affordable vehicles.

And in the end, their shareholders will simply thank them for the extra cash, sell off their declining stock, and invest in some company that actually makes something of value.

Tough, Ford.