Subject: Re: "Free Trade!" "Democracy!"
Pssst.... here's to 'nationalism!' and trying to onshore some industries, and forbidding trade with China for certain items.

We just discovered what might be the world's largest lithium deposits along the Nevada border. Between that, what they can extract from the Salton Sea and Australia's cobalt reserves there's your ability to make batteries, hopefully solid state ones.

But what do you want to bet that these same people don't want to mine US lithium and want to keep getting their EV batteries from child labor in Africa? That runs through China, of course.