[fennecfoxen]

> Factories and supply chains and aren't built over night.

The US also has multiple trade partners around the world. China does not hold a monopoly on US imports. If anything, it's more of a final assembly point for many things, and the US could do more business with southeast Asia.

On top of that, the usual workings of supply and demand would make it quite profitable to divert $STUFF from another economy to the US. Heck, if China still traded any goods the rest of the world at all, firms in the rest of the world could just sell us back many of the exact same goods, with a competitive markup for the indirection, unless and until China puts a complete stranglehold on all its trading partners' deals with the US.

It'd be bad, but at worst it'd be more like 2008 bad than 1930s bad. People did "flood the streets" a little back then, of course (our friends at Occupy Wall Street). It was pretty easy to ignore, though.

Now, if we want to talk of the disruptions associated with an outright war, that's another matter, but we'll also have to worry about the war, which will likely be far worse.