To observe the result of 'tariffs' to an energy-independent & high labor-skill economy, just observe Russia.
Sanctions are essentially tariffs with an infinite percentage.
The result is massive Russian industrial advance. They build everything themselves, including chips. They have new fabs. They have plentiful energy. They build their own ships, airplanes, rockets, space stations, nuclear power plants, construction material, etc etc etc.
'Tariffs' are step 1 to the industrial revival of the US which is a necessity to break out of the centralization/totalitarianism of the single-supplier trap (Chinese crap).
But by itself is not enough, because the COST of making stuff in the US is still enormous, due to the 'health insurance' racket.
That racket MUST be the next one to be broken, or we'll get nowhere with the reindustrialization. Parasitic costs to the economy, of which 'health insurance' is the biggest one, MUST disappear.
This holds true for even further back than 1980. Victorian style houses, the ones built with brick (not just brick veneer, but actual brick walls throughout, even inside) are even better than the 1980 houses.
They do have other issues of course (plumbing, wiring etc), but construction quality was better before WW2. At some point the US switched to wood from brick and basically that was that.
There are good things about wood, but there's also a point to the three-little-pigs story about wooden houses vs brick houses.
And fire is a thing as well.
Similar experience with my grandfather's house. Built in 1955 with STONE. No concrete columns; just stone. Flat roof concrete slab.
Superb insulation. Has survived 4 major earthquakes. Still standing. No roof replacement. What's to replace? The concrete? Maybe the terracotta tiles, but only if you want to.
Find an american house from 1955 with its wooden roof still standing... :)
"From visiting the East coast, I saw that some of the older houses where made from brick."
Only the exterior. Interior is still drywall, so same shitty construction you have experienced.
Yes, this is a MASSIVE shock coming from Europe. House construction in the US is abysmal compared to even POOR european countries, while cost is 10x at least.
And most of the US doesn't even have to deal with earthquakes.
Adding to this. "Roof replacement". If you have a non-wooden roof, you don't need to replace it.
But 'roofing' is big business in the US.
I've met more people from NY in Florida that I knew while living in NY/NJ.
Partly because I would mostly only associate with non-libtards.
So yea, most non-libtards moved out of the NE and came to the south, making the NE even more libtarded.
Although NJ is red and it's been stolen again & again. Eg that satanist Murphy in '22.
Great. They can sell all their junk to Europe.
Oh wait, satanist/globalist central is BROKE, has no energy sources, is deeply involved in the jewkraine quagmire and is about to print 2T euros to make ends meet.
Yea, that will work for chinaman.
It's amazing how they all make the right calls at the right time. Truly amazing. They should work in hedge funds instead of being public 'servants' and 'representatives'.
Incidentally, have they EVER made a bad call during their tenure in congress? Anyone? Ever?
Similar to how 'election irregularities' always favor demoncraps.