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The wildest and most frustrating thing is that absolutely no one (besides OP) is talking about this. The tariffs did not increase domestic manufacturing. They did not work. Yet that is among the least of concerns for the President or any national discourse.
There was an easy way to know these tariffs weren't going to increase domestic manufacturing. These tariffs had no exceptions for manufacturing equipment. We can't make the things that make things anymore. It all comes from other countries. When there was no exception to get around that problem there was no way companies were going to invest in a 5 year plan to make a factory that cost more than it should.