We don’t need a protective tariff. We need someone who will reduce government, eliminate the IRS, reduce these massive regulations, fight the labor cartels, eliminate crony capitalism and make it more profitable for people to work instead of collecting government checks.
A protective tariff will just increase prices on the American consumer with no guarantee that jobs will return.
A 20% tariff would balance the budget. It would force repatriation of industry to the USA. It would take a couple of years, throw in tax incentives to build factories here, but in the long run the USA would be 100 times better off.