We meed really high protective tariffs if we are to survive as a nation.
No, we don’t. We did the protective tariff thing with steel and aluminum back in the 50’s and 60’s and all it did was prevent domestic producers from implementing new technology. Another problem is that, once you put a tariff in place, politics makes it almost impossible to remove it. If you own a company that can’t compete on an international scale, you need to reexamine what your doing differently than your competitors. Tariffs prevent that type of introspection.