This time is different. The dumbass has burned WAY too many bridges. Thanks a bunch, you jerks who elected the incompetent asshole….

There’s No Coming Back From Trump’s Tariff Disaster

 This isn’t the same as last time. I actually wish it were. This time, there’s no coming back from this quickly. Whoever is elected the 48th president won’t be able to easily rebuild what Donald Trump is busy destroying. Countries can and will move on without the United States. Their firms will establish new supply chains and pursue other markets. Even if the U.S. were the ultra-dominant trading partner it used to be, the credibility of the nation’s promises, its treaties, its agreements, and even its basic rationality has evaporated in just weeks.

America’s economic dominance has long been supported by alliances, faith in U.S. debt, and the independence of the Fed. Those three things “were all built on trust that took decades to build, and Trump is wrecking it all.”

The problem facing future administrations—and this one, in the unlikely event that it gains a modicum of rationality—is that the country has killed its reliability. “Trump has unilaterally decided that I’m going to wreck the credibility of international agreements.”

Wrong as he may be, Trump is behaving like a man seeking an age-defining legacy.

I’ll bet he gets one.

If I gotta explain, you ain’t tryin to understand.