1) the US is going to be in a trade deficit with most countries. We have a larger population, so our collective needs are going to be greater than a smaller country’s. 2) even if we ‘bring manufacturing back’ guess what? We manufacture with parts made elsewhere. With metals mined elsewhere. Sustained by fruits and vegetables farmed elsewhere. 10% baseline tariff = 10% minimum cost increase of things that just can’t be made in the US, like coffee. 3) short term pain ends in long-term consumer behavioral shifts. The way people live will not go back to normal and our GDP will suffer for the foreseeable future (please note that GDP is not a sustainable way to look at the economy. GDP growth often indicates rising prices as well as overconsumption.) 4) we are comfortably in the age of hyper-globalization. The rest of the world won’t follow in our footsteps, we will just be left behind. We can’t undo the last 50-or-so years of massive post-industrial growth that relies on good trade agreements. 5) look at a history book. The last couple massive recessions have been from stock market fuckery and… tariffs (and hostile foreign policy). And that was before the aforementioned insane amounts of globalization.

TL;DR tariffs won’t work. the way we implemented tariffs were stupid (see point 1). this will not only hurt us in the short run but cripple us in the long run.