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I have heard some chuds who admit it will raise prices in the short-term but say that in the long-term it will even out competition for local, good old American companies to come in and save the day and finally be competitive. Then we'll have more jobs. Same when we kick out the immigrants who are also stealing all our jobs.
But it excludes a bunch of considerations, like the fact that evil foreign companies didn't come in and steal our manufacturing jobs, it was given to them by porky. And they did it to pay people less. If it's in the US, pay will have to go up, which will increase costs to the consumer. Or, pay won't go up, so we'll have jobs but they won't be a livable wage.
But that probably won't happen anyway, because we just don't have the manufacturing capability here anymore. It will take decades to years to match all the things we import. Either way, the enemy is the capitalists here at home, not foreigners.
This is why we're seeing a bunch of the financial class pledging fealty to 45/47. There will be a split in the international elite as they try to wager what's going to happen. Some of them will bet on the US mechanisms and they will make suboptimal investments for patriotic reasons. Others will hedge. Figuring out where the hedges go is going to be part of our job.
Part of the reason for US lebensraum is allow for oppression of labor in Canada and Mexico and for destruction of those environments. This will allow a release valve for the professional managerial class in the USA, allowing them to manage the projects in Canada and Mexico without having to become laborers themselves. It also allows for the USA to create favorable conditions even for the breakaway elite to invest in Mexico and Canada instead of Asia.
The USA also has plenty of Keynseian options to make farm labor lucrative enough that crackers will do it. There's nothing stopping the government from doing that except maybe ideology, but I don't think they're rabid enough to let ideology cause a famine within a year of 45/47 getting reelected.
I think it's entirely possible to see an Italian fascism in the USA that starts to really solve economic issues for people couped with a German fascism that purges revolutionaries under the guise of purging refugees/immigrants. It's also possible that we get a German fascism that drives towards war with China, but that has to happen really soon according to intelligence and it likely won't get past Taiwan.