Republicans keep saying stuff like this but it’s politically short-sighted.
Many people are fickle creatures.
The hardcore democrats and republicans aren’t going to change, but Trump won over the rest of the populace because of two things; The unfair crusade against him by judges and AGs who had no cases and no business turning him into a martyr, and because he had a fraudulent puppet of a sitting president and people realized that he wasn’t the one who was really running the country.
Things can change, and they almost always do.
These tariffs are good for the country (in my opinion) in the long run, but it’s going to hurt for a while in more inflation. Not everyone is going to think it’s worth it that we make more of our own steel and aluminum now, or that we don’t import all of our semiconductors when cars top 100k and Walmart’s cheapest pair of blue jeans is $60. They didn’t pay attention in macroeconomics lessons. Some old guy waving a cane at a presidential address doesn’t register on their richter scale 3 years later.
Not everyone is going to think it’s worth it that we make more of our own steel and aluminum now
The downstream industries that rely on metal for production and had to lay off workers, probably not.