Without pressure, local companies do not compete.

We need to let them in at a limited capacity and our domestic companies need to feel the heat.

The geopolitical risks are real. Stronger foreign companies can kill local ones if there's no stopgap or means for local companies to catch up. The cars are microphones for politically exposed persons (which most of you are not). If there was ever a hot war, these cars can turn into remote bombs and take out key infrastructure.

But in the here and now, we need Ford and friends to grow up and face real evolutionary pressures.

American consumers like big SUVs. But they also want cheap and modern, and once they see what else the market has to offer, they'll use choice to force the hands of American auto.