"Bring back American jobs" is the result needed but putting it that way is misdirecting. The action needed to accomplish that end is to drastically reduce or end taxes on business and drastically reduce or end the mountains of regulations and restrictions on American business. That would return American workers and industry to supreme competitiveness in the world and would bring many American and foreign companies from the rest of the world into or back into America.
Trying to "bring back American jobs," by adding tariffs and new trade restrictions, which is what many or most people think when they use or hear that phrase would be counterproductive, self defeating. The exodus of American industry to other parts of the world would only accelerate.
Trying to "bring back American jobs," by adding tariffs and new trade restrictions, which is what many or most people think when they use or hear that phrase would be counterproductive, self defeating. Many here use "bring back American jobs" as shorthand for "punish China", when the people who need punishing are really in Washington, DC.