re: Trump's section 301 tariffs were successful. The data proves it.

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It was less than a century ago.

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a. The US only started to develop after industrialization took off in the late 19th century, which was changing the older economic model that we had relied upon previously . Industrialization was still emerging 100-ish years ago.

b. The federal government was much smaller and the correlated funding was much smaller. If we went back to a smaller federal government, we could rely on tariffs again potentially. You are promoting a larger federal government, though. Tariffs can't fund much of anything today, and even the most generous estimates of Trump's tariff revenue are a nothingburger compared to our annual budget.

c. The US didn't fully emerge as a world power until after WW2, when we were able to become a hegemon. We were still relatively poor (yet developing, thanks to industrialization) when we stopped relying on tariffs.

d. The worldwide economic model of developing countries has advanced a few tiers since the US became a worldwide hegemon. We are the literal pioneer of all of these developments.

You are promoting, at best, a return to the industrialization age of the late 19th and early 20th century. This means we will have to scale back the most productive aspects of our economy to devolve.

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and you can't even counter the fact that APPLE would still have invented their products.

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Technology is a more developed tier of economy than industrialization. You want to devote the resources we used for our advanced economy to redistribute to unproductive citizens who refuse to adapt, instead. You can't have both. Even China, who has stolen basically all of their tech within their 'advanced' economy, can't compete because they're still so focused on industrialization.