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.
Our wise and morally superior founders are rolling in their graves watching the world cashing in and practicing unopposed mercantilism against their beloved USA. They fought a war and risked everything to stop that....