[Jim Noble]

I differ from most of you here, in that I am a radical protectionist. I favor American autarky, a continental economy depending on resource exploitation and domestic production, and walls at the southern border, which I figure should be about 100 miles south of the present one, with almost all of that 100 miles being a military frontier zone.

But that's just me.

[dennisw]

I differ from most of you here, in that I am a radical protectionist. I favor American autarky, a continental economy depending on resource exploitation and domestic production, and walls at the southern border, 

We can do it. The only thing we really need from abroad are a few strategic metals
We could have pulled this off a lot easier 10-20 years ago because we had more industrial base intact
Think the "free traitors" for that.

But it could be done
We have vast coal deposits and natural gas to exploit
We could get rid of foreign oil if we did