Killing the world economy in a misguided effort to close the trade deficit (expert economists are mixed on how much it matters) is not going to fix anything. The answer largely lies in using our advantage to upskill, not in bringing back a few low paying manufacturing jobs (good luck to them when those workers try to unionise), which are going to become increasingly scarce in the very near future. Again. We can't go back to 1950s economies. We have to work with what is.
Yes tariffs are a blunt tool and yes they harm other countries economies
You keep saying this, like it makes it real. Show me one model that calculates gains from tariffs having an overall favourable impact on the US domestic economy. And I don't mean statements from the White House or right wing media sycophants. I mean an actual model that games it out. How much manufacturing we're bringing back, costs/timelines to get all this manufacturing up and running, how many employed, profits, how we get the parts for the manufacturing (currently tariffed, and tariffed each time they move around for manufacturing should all parts of the supply chain not be based in the US) etc. Surely someone would have worked out some likely scenarios before taking such very drastic steps and making Americans, at least for the moment, much, much poorer.
I posted two articles for you further up in the thread about trade deficits.
You seem very, um, susceptible to misinformation and spin and resistant to information, for one so keen on facts.