You all deride the WSJ, but they have several good takes on this...
The Dumbest Trade War in History
The Dumbest Trade War Fallout Begins
My favorite:
O Canada! Don’t pretend you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve this.
For years we have tolerated your provocations. Your curious “bacon.” Your cloying niceness. The whole French thing. You may not be responsible for burying us in fentanyl (a total of 43 pounds seized at the border last year,
according to U.S. Border Patrol), but you’ve sent us a lot of noxious material over the decades: Justin Bieber. Jim Carrey. Tim Horton.
And the annoying way you pronounce words—“about” sounds like “a boat”? You thought you could get away with that, eh?
And don’t get me started on Mexico.
I tried. There may be some better justification for what the Journal’s editorial board has
called “the dumbest trade war in history,” but I can’t think of one....
If I had asked you the day before the election to name the international concerns on which Mr. Trump would focus most attention during the transition and the early days of his presidency, you’d probably have guessed the obvious: China, Russia and Ukraine, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Middle East. If you would have said: Canada, Mexico,
Greenland and
Panama, you should be in the crystal-ball business....