Trump is on to something with his attacks on all those American companies that do business overseas. Sure they can make lots of money finding customers abroad and employing people willing to work for next to nothing. They can dodge all those pesky regulations that protect the environment and workers’ health and safety. They can pay lower taxes and less benefits and take advantage of trade deals that the United states hasn’t signed onto.

But what about the displaced American worker? Unfortunately, Trump’s one-tweet-at-a-time strategy is inadequate to address the scope of the problem. He has managed to bully Carrier into keeping a token 700 jobs in America while thousands have gone south. He’s made threatening noises about Ford, GM, Toyota, Boeing, and Lockheed, causing their stock prices to wobble and their CEOs to kowtow.

But he hasn’t shown he can make good on his threats without help from Congress whose members may be less willing to ignore economic reality or bite the hands of the donors who fed them. It isn’t clear Trump appreciates the complex web of the world’s trade. Even when American cars are built in Mexico, for example, many of the parts come from America, just as cars built in America use parts made abroad.

And even if his tweets against supposedly villainous companies in the news please his aggrieved blue-collar fans, these few companies are a drop in the bucket in a world where global trade is the norm.

A list of corporations doing a considerable part of their business overseas goes on for pages, essentially duplicating the S&P 500. Almost half the revenue for those 500 biggest companies is booked overseas. A tally from a few years ago showed that Wal-Mart made 26% of its money outside America. For Exon-Mobil it was 45%, GE 54%, Ford 51%, IBM 64%, Intel 85%, McDonalds 66%, Nike 56%, Amazon 45% and so on.

Only a few companies are largely domestic, such as mega-hospital complexes, but check in and you may find that the employees are American but your catheter, stent, heart monitor, MRI machine, scalpel or drugs were manufactured abroad. Trump and his fans must feel daunted by the spreading miasma of globalization that seems inescapable.

Only two solutions come to mind. The first would be to turn American labor into American capitalists by using tax policy to transfer wealth to the hourly workers and the poor, not in the form of welfare or earned income tax credits but in the form of shares in American multinationals. Then the working class would be as blithe as the managerial class about outsourcing, so long as their dividends came in and their portfolio’s value increased.

Since sharing the wealth isn’t a part of the ruling class DNA, however, the only other solution is for Trump to call a halt to globalization. But Trump’s tweeting alone isn’t going to be enough to turn the tide. He has got to enlist his loyal, pitchfork brandishing followers to bring pressure to bear on corporate titans who insist on doing what’s good for their shareholders. That would get the point across bigly. It would be huge. That would make America imagine it was great again.

So, the people have got to be enlisted in this mighty crusade and told to boycott any company doing business abroad and hiring foreigners to steal American jobs. So, no more buying advanced weapons systems from Boeing and Lockheed. No more shopping at Wal-Mart, eating Big Macs, putting Nikes on your feet. No Apple gadgets, Xboxes or consumer electronics of any kind. They re all made by oriental coolies.

We will have to give up cars made by international companies, which is practically everyone of them, and oil produced by firms with an international footprint. So it may be back to Amish life. We won’t even be able to stay at Marriott hotels since they get revenue from overseas too.

But nobody said making America Isolationist Again would be easy — or profitable. It will be really painful, entailing a decline in living standards and a return to a past that was a lot less pleasant than the imaginary one seen through the rose-colored glasses of reactionaries. But our patriot forebears did it, and we can too.

After the Townshend Acts in the 1760s, Americans boycotted English goods. They made their own homespun clothes, drank some weird local herbal muck instead of imported tea, suffered searches of all packages to make sure no contraband was coming into the country, physically attacked suspected violators, and endured the economic consequences — a depression, increased debt and a lower standard of living.

But if they could boycott their overlords, so can we. And the good news is, if our sacrifice is great it will be greater for major malefactors who send American jobs abroad. Imagine how proud Donald Trump will be to lead the charge by boycotting his own brand. Products bearing his name are made in China and Mexico. Boycott them.

His foreign hotel and resort properties earn huge streams of income for the president-elect. He will have to boycott all the money he gets from employing foreigners in India, Ireland, Scotland, Uruguay, Korea, Brazil, Canada, Turkey, Panama, Azerbaijan, and the Philippines.

How proud we will all be when Trump takes a principled stand and vows to commit he sin of globalization no more. He can sell all those alien properties and invest the proceeds in good, old American heartland lodging companies like Motel 6 where he can employ salt of the earth grassroots voters or illegal aliens, whichever works for less.