As for Traiffs.
I understand Trade.
I own a business.
I manufacture products both here and in Asia.
Tariffs affected me negatively.
Yet while they did affect me and virtually everyoneelse in the industries I operate in negativley.
Virtually every person I deal with felt he was doing right by the country by putting them in place.
Those who were in the fields in question ( which incidentlyy includes him as Trump has made numerous products in China) knew exactly the devastion that was wrough on Middle America by “experts’ version of free trade.
Yes there were materials not being produced here.
The factories that produced them were idle the towns that lived off them devastated, it was simply not cost effective to produce virtually anything in the USA.
Tariffs made them cost effective thereby allowing a manufacturing base to be recreated bringing back Jobs to the US and those materials could now be produced here.