I think tariffs is just another form of tax.
It’s shared by buyers and sellers and is a tax on consumption, especially lower-end consumption – as the outsourced/imported products should proportionally be more lower-end.
It’s actually a more onerous “tax” on low to mid income US people, assuming that high-end consumers care more about high-end products which are not produced in China etc.
And it does increase gov income. Instead of higher taxes on wealthier people, this form of “tax” is more shared across average consumers.
Separately, tariff will income US mfg jobs.
However, who will do these jobs? With the current wave of AI, you could imagine more average “white collar” workers will be replaced by AI and maybe they shall go to manufacturing.
I think we should say all jobs are created equal – however, if you look back, when those manufacturers jobs were transferred out of the US, US was in the dominating position in the world. No one could force the US to get rid of “good jobs” and keep “bad jobs” back then – I could only imagine that those outsourced jobs were considered “worse”.
So now more people in the US will pick up those “bad jobs”. That’s not a very comforting vision for many average people in the US – probably more dangerous, more exposed to health issues, more repetitive (well white collar jobs can be repetitive). However, this should do good for US overall.