There will be no solution to the economic strip mining of America until those who wrote and enforce the government policies that made it possible are removed from power. It is all part of the ongoing "quiet war" against the American People that has arguably been waged by this nation's "elites" since 1787... most certainly since the Civil War.
200+ years of political domination and corruption must be forcibly uprooted before any revival of manufacturing can occur. Have to treat the root cause before anything else. One advantage the American political system has is it's federal-you have state and more realistically, local levels that can be taken over... sounds like what I've been talking about all along.
In any event, a revival of manufacturing in America? Actually it is not only possible, but more than likely will take on a more distribuited, egalitarian quality as 3d printing techniques and the availability of machine tooling surplused by the enemy's economic warfare against us is already available.
Two major hurdles are power generation and protection of said assets against seizure. Power generation: we will have to come up with our own means of doing so, as the electrical grid is monitored. Alternative fuels, ranging from biomass to geothermal to far wilder fringe theories about zero point energy and the works of Nikola Tesla must all be explored.
Defending said manufacturing from an enemy that runs the country will require political, social and yes, more direct measures. Controlling the political structure of your town and more desirably, county, can give your machine shop or hackerspace a legal shield... up to the point where the state or fedgov send in their thug cops... they're raiding organic growers and co-ops with guns drawn. They don't want you to be free and if you can make your own products and do it cheaper and with more quality than whatever's shipped from China, you're a threat.
So if you can give the orders to your local police then the threat of raids on your manufacturing come from the states and feds.
