See that is where you are wrong. The opposite would happen. Factories would reopen or have to be built from scratch. Domestic supply chains reopened. The economic activity would be thru the roof. Like China. It works both ways.
You too have lost faith in America and Americans. What sad pathetic creatures Free Traitors™ are. I'll bet you were not always like this.
See that’s where you don’t understand the supply chain. The retail world lives on JIT. Just in Time. They don’t have years of stock hanging around waiting for factories to be built to make the stock elsewhere. They don’t have months of stock. Hell, they don’t have weeks of stock. Before the factories could break ground retail stores would be locking up. Even if we could make all that stuff, which we can’t, the economy would be crashed before we could.
It’s not faith. It’s math. We’ve consumed the vast majority of the world’s finished goods for decades. We quite simply can’t produce enough stuff to satisfy our need to consume. 300 million people can’t produce as much as 7 billion, period. Just not possible. And frankly we shouldn’t want to. Because even if we somehow manage to muddle through long enough to make all that stuff without us consuming their stuff the REST of the planet goes bankrupt, and probably a ton of wars start, and some of those go nuclear.
I’m quite proud to have always been like this. Logic, facts, truth and math have always been my friends. And delusional BS has always been my enemy.