[Superman]

I've got a question. Again, I am reluctant to offer it here because there are folks desperately hoping to BLOW UP these exchanges, but here is my question:

I imagine that a trade war would create some fallout. Some damage we would rather avoid. But......since the US is, hands down, the most robust consumer market on the planet, wouldn't the US benefit from a trade war? I mean......what if we applied huge tariffs to imported items in order to create those manufacturing jobs here? Apparel, for example. Apparel manufacturing is largely mechanized anyway, right? I am a big fan of "Made in the USA" purchase decisions. What if we bought products from each other, here in the USA? Economically, we would stop the flow of our economic blood to other countries. We would create jobs, etc. What would China do to punish us for closing our markets this way?