Go ahead, look up the map of countries color coded by tariff rates. Which of the highest tier of tariff countries is an economic powerhouse you want to emulate? Which has the wealthy population with low poverty rates and a thriving middle class. Economists may be prone to ivory tower BS but we also have global real world data collection on tariff rates and economic well-being agreeing with both schools of economic thought in this case.

Trade will naturally balance itself over time if you allow economic benefits of production to accrue to the producers of goods.

It is only if you rig the game to exploit cheap labor while pocketing the value difference yourself that trade deficits pile up.

So basically tariffs are shooting yourself in the foot because you are mad that being xenophobic didn't work out for you.