Is the argument here what we should forgo important things because they’re difficult? As far as I can tell, the difficulty will only increase as time goes on.

It is neither in our best interests to continue this, because I can't give you the level of detail this can. It would be a pale imitation of the reasons in front of you.

Basically, there is no way we "win" this economically through tariffs. Nor can we power through it by trying to throw labor at the problem, because the labor cost is cheaper everywhere else.

no. the argument is that show deliberate policy is how you fix long term systematic problems. flash grenades thrown by toddlers just make everything worse.