[BaldJohn]

"There is no indication that he will come to the people with data and inform the electorate." I can not give you data, but I have been around 70 years and know that before NAFTA and all the rest of these trade deals a man could leave high school and find a job that would pay him enough to keep a family with out his wife working. Now a man has to have a college degree and his wife work to have a middle class life. NAFTA was not sold as a way to get cheap stuff at Walmart, but was supposed to help the working man get higher wages. How did that workout? In addition, how is it better for us to have our medicines made in a communist country or all of our computers and communications equipment? Trump might not be able to accomplish everything he says but I believe he will give it a real try. The rest especially Cruz will not even try. BaldJohn

[nathanbedford]

Donald Trump knows how to buy toilets by the thousands from the Chinese and televisions by the thousands from the Koreans, but there is no evidence that he knows anything else about global trade. He cites as his credentials of familiarity with the Chinese the fact that I rent a floor for a bank in one of his buildings.

Maybe Donald Trump will try but is there any evidence that he has any competence whatsoever? Just because he calls our trade negotiators "stupid" does not mean he is smart. Let us accept that he will try but will his hamhandedness push us into another great depression which came in the wake of Smoot-Hawley?