I want it ALL back. I want to manufacture everything in the USA. Complete self sufficiently.
That’s silly. Competition with the rest of the world makes us better. And there may be resources which are more or less scarce elsewhere, making trade beneficial for us. As a consumer, if Japan builds better electronics, I want to be able to buy them without paying a tariff. I don’t want to settle for U.S. made if they are not doing the best job.
As far as I understand it, Trump would only threaten things like tariffs to get us better trade deals. His ultimate desire is truly free trade, where we could sell all our goods in China and they could sell all theirs here, more or less.