thank you. Your answer isn’t useful though. It merely avoids answering. There are no COMPLETELY closed economies in the world today. HOWEVER, Brazil is close and the United States has had it as a “floating goal” on and off for a long time on the list of possible goals. Joe Biden, Obama, Bush, even Trump all talked about moving manufacturing to America, creating American jobs for Americans, etc. Bernie Sanders even went one step further and proclaimed an isolationist vision for the USA. decisions about immigration are often one aspect of isolationism / closed economies. So I’m asking a broad question. We _could_ do it and it could fit within a larger paradigm of US policy. But is that enough to justify it if we did?

thank you. Your answer isn’t useful though. It merely avoids answering.

There are no COMPLETELY closed economies in the world today. HOWEVER, Brazil is close and the United States has had it as a “floating goal” on and off for a long time on the list of possible goals.

Joe Biden, Obama, Bush, even Trump all talked about moving manufacturing to America, creating American jobs for Americans, etc.

Bernie Sanders even went one step further and proclaimed an isolationist vision for the USA.

decisions about immigration are often one aspect of isolationism / closed economies.

So I’m asking a broad question. We _could_ do it and it could fit within a larger paradigm of US policy.

But is that enough to justify it if we did?

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