With all respect, that's not a steelman argument in favor of tarrifs. It's a stack of whatabountism fallacies. "Tariffs are Good" does not follow from "People who say Tariffs are Bad were wrong about other things". Everyone is wrong about lots of stuff. The world is hard to predict.

You don't shoot a hole in the bottom of your life raft because the person pleading with you not to was wrong about how many people it could hold.