Given the context, though, parent's comment is reasonable. The isolationist drive that would bring iphone manufacturing and all the associated mining back to th

Given the context, though, parent's comment is reasonable. The isolationist drive that would bring iphone manufacturing and all the associated mining back to the US would go hand-in-hand with a very isolationist economy, in which we'd presumably not be able to get anything from other countries. The thought exercise of in-sourcing everything that ever contributed to anything that eventually goes into a phone helps to point out how the idea of disentangling ourselves from the global market is absurd.