What drove labour intensive assembly jobs away from the USA was wages that are a fraction of what the USA has, and correspondingly lower standing of living. If

What drove labour intensive assembly jobs away from the USA was wages that are a fraction of what the USA has, and correspondingly lower standing of living. If sustained long enough tariffs will fix that. Costs will rise in the USA, exports will drop because the price of everything made in the USA will go up, the dollar will then drop, living standards will drop, and eventually comparative wages will start to approach those in Asia. Once that happens, assembly jobs will naturally migrate back to the USA. The USA has avoided that outcome for years by manufacturing very high margin products. Think Intel, SpaceX, vaccines, and the software giants like Microsoft, Google and Meta. That came at the cost of bifurcation of the economy, with tech sector jobs paying outlandish wages compared to what someone manufacturing a car could get. It seems that pissed so many people off they elected Trump. Trump probably thinks is the fix, but changing is coming no matter who is in power. As China, India in particular, now even those "high brain power" jobs are under price stress. Chip manufacturing has almost gone, the software companies are paying 1/4 or 1/10 the price of engineering talent by hiring overseas, India has become the pharmaceutical manufacturing powerhouse of the world. So you don't need lower tariffs to fix it. The fix is coming regardless of who you vote for. All tariffs will do is accelerate the process. But if there is one process you didn't want accelerated, it's this one. It's not all doom and gloom. Look to Canada, Australia and Europe to see what the final outcome will be like. It's not so bad, is it? You probably don't want to end up like the Britain, as that would mean a few rich with most of the USA ending up at the living standard of Mississippi.