Article snippet: DETROIT — At a rally in Warren, Mich., a week before the 2016 election, Donald Trump railed against American automakers that had moved their factories abroad — a pitch that helped him become the first Republican presidential candidate to win the state in 28 years. Fast forward to Tuesday, when it was Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, standing in front of hundreds of people on a concrete floor in Detroit and making a strikingly similar argument. She took companies like Levi’s and General Electric to task for shifting parts of their production overseas as she pitched a $2 trillion plan to spur the research, manufacturing, and export of clean energy technology in the United States. “These giant corporations, they’re not loyal to America, they’re not loyal to American workers,” Warren said, as members of the crowd cheered and even shook their fists. “Those giant corporations, they may not care about American workers, but I do.” Beginning in a city that has become shorthand for the decline of American manufacturing, Warren’s visit to Michigan on Tuesday — the first of her presidential campaign — was a potent backdrop for the launch of her new initiative to intervene more forcefully in the economy to shore up American jobs, a proposal she calls “economic patriotism.” But that plan, as well as her campaign event here, also highlighted that some aspects of Warren’s economic populism have echoes of Trump’s “America First” economic nationalism, and underscored how the... Link to the full article to read more