Ask people to explain how vehicles tires are made (from raw resource to manufacture and distro) and suddenly globalization makes sense - it's the only way toward the future. Subtext is required to discern what is good and bad about it.
We need to teach students of all ages some lessons about logistics and supply chain - not only will they better understand how the world functions but that there are career and business opportunities at every node.
The primary matter is not globalization or no globalization, it's about what balance and for which countries and industries. These things will constantly shift back and forth, the pendulum will over-swing as it does.
Just because N amount of globalization makes sense, that doesn't mean the extent we have at present, and its composition, makes the most sense. And obviously that (what makes sense) will vary significantly by the national interest of a given country based on its culture and stage of development. The world is filled to the brim with competing interests and that will never change, some benefit more or less from more or less globalization.
There's globalization-the-way-things-are-made-now, and there's globalization-the-neoliberal-trade-policy-that's-dominated-US-politics-since-the-80s.
The former's a fact, the latter's... less so, and has been pretty unpopular among voters on both "sides of the aisle" more often than not for the entire time it's been the driving force behind US trade policy (the donor and think-tank sets love it, though, is why it's persisted regardless).
Trump's the only big-two-party Presidential candidate I can recall in that whole time span who ran on strongly anti-neoliberalism (so, anti-globalization, in the pop-culture, colloquial sense of globalization) messaging, which worked pretty well for him since most R voters (and a good chunk of true-swing, and actually a lot on the left though they mostly wouldn't have voted for him for other reasons) more-or-less hate neoliberalism—regardless of the movement's merits, it's unpopular.
We need to teach students of all ages some lessons about logistics and supply chain - not only will they better understand how the world functions but that there are career and business opportunities at every node.