Grandchildren too, as a matter of fact.
Having a conniption will not bring back industry, nor will shutting down trade.
Fairness is a very reasonable objective, but the simple formula imposed by the Administration has nothing to do with fairness or removing unfair barriers to US trade. It is a simple equation which weighs only one thing: trade deficits.
Not all deficits are the result of cheating. In many if not most cases they are the result of cheap labor. I have a newsflash for you: American consumers do not want and are not able to pay $50 for a sweatshirt or $3000 for a PC. Just like the buggy whip manufacturers you mentioned, the low-skill milling and assembly jobs of our grandparents are dead and gone. Putting a trade moat around us will sink our economy, not fix it.
Take the cost of something, ANYTHING, manufactured here OR yes, even exported to and sold here, in different eras, Then do a search re what that price is in today's money. You WILL be surprised!
Yes, the USA has allowed many items, as well as jobs, to be outsourced for far too long a time. We weren't decimated by war...our economy was ruined through OUTSOURCING, as well as intellectual THEFT. Then throw in corruption and illegal payoff, and here we are.
It is your children and grandchildren who are stuck with our terrible debts, lack of things made here, and shoddy CRAP!
Is THAT what YOU really want?
Trump has been talking about ALL of this since at least the 1980s and no, he was NOT the only one. And yet, these lone voices of sanity were IGNORED!
And now...ask yourself just how many people were going to buy new foreign made cars, new houses, etc. THIS year! Not really all THAT many, if truth be told.
In past eras, through recessions, depressions ( and there were MANY of these; the depression in the 1890s rivaled the Great Depression, for but one example ), labor strikes, etc., with NO to only two minor "safety nets", people did what they had to do and somehow survived.
Are today's populace all THAT spoiled and STUPID, that they can't or refuse to do what they have to?
Forget "FAIRNESS"; only children whine about something not being "fair"!
Trump is trying to save this nation! Will it hurt some? Probably; but what is the answer...continuing with what is SO damned WRONG now?
With these threats, or whatever you want to call it, Trump has gotten many foreign companies and nations to cave!
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT?
What sticks in your craw, vis-a-vis many nations now cutting or removing their tariffs on our goods, companies moving TO America, etc.?
Your problem is that you refuse to see the forest for the trees!