If you could ask our log past founders what to do about the current fiscal mess the USA is in that is what they would tell us to do - tariff.
That alone wouldn’t win without a significant boost in patriotism. Chinese junk would get 20% more expensive but there is a huge profit margin there already. If every dollar raised through tariffs resulted in a corporate tax cut of a dollar, AND we had a boost in patriotism, we’d start to go in the right direction.