@peacefulpete: unrest near oil producing places - if you drill domestically, that is much less of a problem - if you don’t start wars that is much less of a problem.
That will only work if you repeal the 2016 provision for domestic oil/gas to be sold on open market and you enforce price controls. That is possible but not likely. The logic of 'soft power' through trade is a large topic but an important aspect of these questions.
As far as tariffs is concerned, for the first 200 years of US existence there were no income taxes, it was tariffs that drove investment in domestic production and the Industrial Revolution which made the US from a British backwater into the most powerful nation on earth.
The economics of the 18th and 19th centuries were very different from modern economics, because the world is no longer filled with imperialism and slavery for example. Even so, there are some lessons that can be learned. For example, the Embargo Act of 1807 did stimulate a more diverse domestic production as hoped, but it never equaled the loss to the larger GDP. It created black markets and fueled smuggling. It also destroyed relationships with Britian and France. This led to war.
Embargo Act of 1807 - Wikipedia
The US also face multiple rounds of recession and collapse during those 200 years. America did not become a superpower until the devastation of Europe from WW1 and WW2.
if you don’t start wars that is much less of a problem
The US has not started a war since 2001. (Officially of course not since WW2). And as regards Trump's record, I'll remind you he reversed the Obama administration's decision to not send javelin missiles to Ukraine. (notwithstanding the illegal personal motivations for offering this assistance and for unfreezing aid). He also circumvented Congressional approval to sell weapons to the Saudis for its war with Houthis. Trump also sold jets to Qatar despite saying they were sponsors of terrorism.
