USSR also put incompetent high tariffs on Western, technologically superior cars during the Cold War 1.0, making them quite a rarity inside the Soviet Union at that time, to protect the domestic, lower-quality alternatives (other products too).
Only some foreign diplomats or influential elites, who got them smuggled, owned them in limited numbers, they were not sold in any dealerships and were rarely seen in the streets. Similar to the Cold War 2.0 nowadays. It is just that the US is the USSR of the modern day.
Instead, the majority of the people owned Soviet-made inferior-quality cars. And probably were all quite shocked if they traveled abroad and noticed the stark difference in the quality of the cars sold there, not just in the West, but also in many third-party countries globally.
The same is happening now with the attack on Chinese EVs. There will be a point when the rest of the world, countries like Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Morroco, Thailand, Vietnam, all these countries will have more superior and cheaper cars on their streets than the US in total.
Basically, even if they entirely banned travel to China (as they are clearly trying nowadays), everywhere they would go they would see through the new 'Iron Curtain'. Also, it is a different dynamic nowadays in the age of the internet. That certainly won't "end" very well there.
Wait till the Muricans realize that this is not all about the "climate hoax", but about all of the extra innovative features, space & comfort, smoothness & quietness, flexibility & practicality, the total "feel" of it, and low maintenance cost, that the EVs provide due to their nature.
And please don't mention how they still have Tesla because Tesla is happily eating all of that US government and state, taxpayer-funded, subsidies, to go into Musk's compensation and further lobbying efforts. They would rather spend all of that money to enrich themselves or further lobbying and rent-seeking than to innovate to lower prices or to make superior products.
A record number of Tesla vehicles, made in the US factories, regularly fail, due to quality issues, just like Soviet-made cars did in the USSR too.
Also, this is not only about cars, soon the US, just like the USSR, will start putting tariffs on many other technologically superior and cheaper Chinese manufactured goods to protect the domestic bloated rent-seeking, expensive, share-buyback giving, "alternatives".
This will all lead to lower satisfaction rates among citizens, inflation, and decreasing standards of living, also not in comparison only with China, but in terms of other third-party neutral countries around the world. They will also have "way nicer things". Look at this too:
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