How can America remain a global superpower if we are not self sufficient in the industries required to maintain that status? Most of the bad actors in the world have difficulty feeding themselves. Do they really want to cut their own throats to maintain the current imbalances and unfair trade policies they now enjoy should we choose to sell our surplus foodstuffs elsewhere in retaliation?
We were allies of Japan in the 1920s, imagine if we had leveraged our steel-making to Japan in that period.
Trump made the point that if foreign companies don’t want to pay the tariff, they can open plants here and hire American workers and they don’t have to pay a tax.
America is open for business.