You fundamentally don’t seem to either understand freedom or believe in freedom or both.
Either way, you cannot explain how tariffs address the core issues of why businesses are fleeing this country and the resulting slow growth of GDP.
Here’s an idea: let’s employ the same laws here in the US that china and mexico employ with regards to imports into their countries. And, while we’re at it, throw in their labor and business laws also.
The US has no comparative advantage when dealing with communist regimes. You cannot compete against slave labor, and you cannot compete against foriegn governments that subsidize investment and use slave labor.