[pierrem15]

It's really amazing how Trump's re-election is showing just how much law and bureaucracy has been setup to make sure that the bureaucrats and the ruling class can never be held accountable by the elected government.

So the argument against Trump is that the disaster of trade deficits didn't happen fast enough to constitute an emergent condition.

That's like showing up at an emergency room feeling ill only to be turned away because it's a diagnosis of slow moving metastatic cancer.

[pierrem15]

I would add:

a) it's the diagnosis of the damage being done by trade deficits and not how fast it develops that's dispositive;

b) under the law, making that decision is up to the President, not anyone else, so as long as the decision has a rational bass, it's legal.