Trump's staff should have just let Trump unilaterally withdraw from NAFTA

Yeah, it would have resulted in market chaos but it would have woke people up to the danger he presents and maybe the GOP would have acted.


Market chaos is preferable to the global instability an assassination of Assad or a pre-emptive attack on nuclear armed North Korea, both of which Trump contemplated.


Markets correct, nuclear war not so much...


The Trump threat is theoretical until it isn't.