Peter Navarro built his reputation doing something far less glamorous: arguing that America should make things again. Long before that lesson became painfully obvious, Peter Navarro was warning that America was hollowing out its industrial base. He created an entirely new White House entity, the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, to give those ideas a permanent seat at the highest levels of government. It signaled that rebuilding American manufacturing would be a defining priority of the administration. But changing the incentives that influence where companies invest, manufacture, and hire has become one of the defining features of modern American economic policy.