What does the US import that, if cut off, would decrease our quality of life?

[pampango]

96. Indeed that is what Sweden does and it trades twice as much as the US.

Sweden has heavily unionized, highly-paid workforce that produces what it can and trades for what is better or cheaper from other countries.

No one is saying isolation, PPL.

No one here is talking about isolation but that is effectively what Trump is talking about. He will impose unilateral tariffs which require withdrawing from the WTO and NAFTA and every other trade agreement we have. If/when he does that we are back to the 1920's with retaliatory tariffs from other countries in response. Pretty soon we have effective isolationism whether that is what Trump wants to admit to up front or not.

And, of course, the trade isolationism of the 1920's was one of the things that FDR fought so hard to reverse. It's no wonder that a republican like Trump wants to bring it back.